It all seemed simple enough...a couple of days in the City of Light...a conspiracy, stolen diamonds and murder, all the things a guy really doesn't need...but ends up getting anyway...The ornate table had been in the Saint-Croix Cathedral, hiding in plain sight, for nearly forty years. No one had ever noticed anything peculiar about the table, at least not until there was a fire 120 kilometers away in a Paris apartment. Ex Special Forces commandos Bastian Fontain and his partner Robert MacAskill are engaged in the operation of a small security company in Montreal when Robert, summoned to Paris after a fire at his aunt's apartment, discovers a Nazi courier satchel hidden in the attic. The satchel belonging to a former SS officer had been left behind by Robert's father after an unsuccessful raid meant to capture Hermann Goring. The mission at Luxembourg Palace in which he and Bastian's father had taken part had gone terribly wrong, leaving Bastian's father wounded.Documents found in the satchel, lead Bastian and Robert on a mission to stop a secret conspiracy intent on resurrecting the Third Reich by a group calling itself: the Fallen.The pair are helped by ex-French Resistance fighter Jean Paul Goulette and Detective Chief Inspector Miriam Desrosiers of the French Judicial Police: they become known by the nickname The Treasury Board
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