NYPD detective Jack Dilger is on the trail of a chic art dealer fencing old masters to Colombian drug dealers---until he's taken off the case. An ocean away, police inspector Madeleine Leclerq digs up proof of corrupt politicians in Nice---until superiors shut her down. Now, on the French Riviera, two exiled cops will find each other, discover blood enemies closing in on them both, and embrace and addiction more dangerous than cocaine, more intoxicating than brute power, and as threatening as death itself.