Former LAPD Robbery-Homicide Division detective Harvey Leung didn't come to Paris for a second chance. He came for his daughter, Maya.

After destroying his career to bring down a corrupt police brass, he has nothing left but an old black Saab 900 Turbo, a pocketful of unfiltered Camels, and a court order granting him a mere few days a month with his little girl.

To the French bureaucracy, he’s an unwelcome foreign nuisance; to the Parisian elite, he’s a street-level bottom-feeder. But to the desperate, he’s the only man who can dig the truth out of the dark.

When a far-right politician is found murdered in a locked-room office at La Défense, authorities instantly arrest radical left leader Lucas Vidal. The police claim an airtight case, yet there's one fatal flaw: an absolutely insurmountable commute between the crime scene and Vidal’s public rally stage—a "geographically impossible" and perfect alibi.

Hired by Vidal’s high-priced lawyer to expose a police frame-up, Harvey dives into the underbelly of Paris, from the drug dens of Saint-Denis to the corrupt card rooms of Place de Clichy. But as he digs out a single, twisted lead bullet and uncovers a massive state conspiracy, Harvey realizes he is no longer just investigating a murder.

He is the single unstable variable caught in the gears of a massive government machine. And the price of the truth might be losing his daughter forever.

"Justice has a price. In the shadow of the Seine, Harvey is about to find out if he can pay it."