Black Squad

Marseille. A disgraced former police commander, a witness impossibleto protect, and a seventeen-year-old truth that refuses to stayburied.Lucas Varese has lost everything: his rank, his reputation, almosthis family. Indicted for falsifying evidence, he has only one cardleft to play: protect Ronan Delorme, the man he hunted for tenyears, now the only witness who can bring down a corruption networkrooted in Lyon, 2009.Between two assassination attempts, a teenage daughter he'srediscovering too late, and a network with allies reaching into thehighest levels of the institution, Varese no longer has the luxuryof doubt. Every evening, an absurd game of chess with a man heshould hate. Every day, one more fragment of a truth that no onewanted to see resurface.But as the hearing draws closer, one question tightens around themall: who, at the very top of this invisible hierarchy, is stillpulling the strings - and how far will he go to keep the truth fromever reaching the light?The third book in the Black Squad series, Marked Witness closesthe trial of Lucas Varese - but leaves open a question far biggerthan anything that came before it.A relentless legal thriller carried by characters who must choose,page after page, between loyalty and survival.

Marseille. A disgraced former police commander, a witness impossibleto protect, and a seventeen-year-old truth that refuses to stayburied.Lucas Varese has lost everything: his rank, his reputation, almosthis family. Indicted for falsifying evidence, he has only one cardleft to play: protect Ronan Delorme, the man he hunted for tenyears, now the only witness who can bring down a corruption networkrooted in Lyon, 2009.Between two assassination attempts, a teenage daughter he'srediscovering too late, and a network with allies reaching into thehighest levels of the institution, Varese no longer has the luxuryof doubt. Every evening, an absurd game of chess with a man heshould hate. Every day, one more fragment of a truth that no onewanted to see resurface.But as the hearing draws closer, one question tightens around themall: who, at the very top of this invisible hierarchy, is stillpulling the strings - and how far will he go to keep the truth fromever reaching the light?The third book in the Black Squad series, Marked Witness closesthe trial of Lucas Varese - but leaves open a question far biggerthan anything that came before it.A relentless legal thriller carried by characters who must choose,page after page, between loyalty and survival.