The star of the French detective story, Dominique Sylvain, is the author of a dozen brilliant novels, the winner of many awards, including the famous “Ink Blood” and the Grand Prix of Elle magazine readers. On the edge of the Olympic swimming pool, the corpse of a young lawyer was discovered, subjected to the so-called “execution of Père Lebrun” - a torture common in Africa, when a car tire is set on fire on the condemned man’s neck. The brutal method of murder and the fact that the murdered man was an assistant to a well-known arms dealer in political circles shook up the entire Paris. Criminal Investigation Major Sasha Dugen is forced to work in inhumane conditions. The secret services are openly putting pressure on him, petty squabbles in the team do not stop, and even a colorful couple, known from Sylvain’s previous novels, constantly interferes in the investigation - ex-police commissioner Lola Jost and her stripper friend Ingrid Diesel, Dugen’s former lover. A difficult relationship with the charming Ingrid unsettles the major. Meanwhile, murders follow one after another, and the war he has to wage becomes truly dirty. The novel was awarded the “Best Detective of the Year” award by the authoritative Parisian magazine Lire.