Detective Aimee Leduc finds herself in peril as she investigates a car bombing in the Belleville section of Paris.It is April 1994, a particularly cold and rainy spring. Tensions run high in Belleville, the working class neighborhood where Edith Piaf lived, as illegal Algerian immigrants on a hunger strike have taken sanctuary in a church, protesting harsh deportations and demanding that the ministry provide them with residence permits.Aimee turns her attention from corporate computer security when her friend, a Defense Minister's wife, begs for her help after a terrorist bombing. Aimee's investigation leads her from the exclusive Place Vendome to the underground North African network. With the assistance of Inspector Morbier and her partner, Rene, a dwarf with impeccable computer hacking skills, Aimee must search among Islamic fundamentalists and Algerian nationalists for the truth.
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Detective Aimee Leduc finds herself in peril as she investigates a car bombing in the Belleville section of Paris.It is April 1994, a particularly cold and rainy spring. Tensions run high in Belleville, the working class neighborhood where Edith Piaf lived, as illegal Algerian immigrants on a hunger strike have taken sanctuary in a church, protesting harsh deportations and demanding that the ministry provide them with residence permits.Aimee turns her attention from corporate computer security when her friend, a Defense Minister's wife, begs for her help after a terrorist bombing. Aimee's investigation leads her from the exclusive Place Vendome to the underground North African network. With the assistance of Inspector Morbier and her partner, Rene, a dwarf with impeccable computer hacking skills, Aimee must search among Islamic fundamentalists and Algerian nationalists for the truth.