C’est l’histoire d’une balle qui claque contre la pierre de l’escalier de la Butte du Lion de Waterloo. Un coup de fusil dont on ne sait pas qui est l’auteur. Ni s’il visait vraiment sa cible. Louis Aragon.

The year is 1965. Viktor with a K—as in KGB or Kalashnikov—is a private eye who tends to take himself for the hero from one of the noir novels he's so fond of reading. But this child of fervent communists was once himself a younng Resistance fighter whos wartime memories annoy his lover, the beautiful Marie-Claire.
Asked to look into an attack that has been kept secret, Viktor will have to dive back into the horrors of World War II.
With exciting erudition, François Weerts puts the painful relationships between writing, writers, and their era at the heart of his intrigue. What betrayals could make a man take up arms again twenty years after a war has ended?