Balance is a fragile thing; moments of calm are fleeting.
Commissioner Franк Charco, beginning an investigation into a murder, didn’t even suspect that the case would be about nothing less than the survival of humanity. And it all starts relatively harmlessly: in a nature reserve in northern France, they find dead swans, and in Paris several people fall ill with the flu. But this isn’t an ordinary autumn outbreak. The biological safety service of the Pasteur Institute insists it’s a completely new, and moreover artificially bred, strain of virus. Investigators from the Orfèvres embankment, 36, are thrown off their feet.
The epidemic is about to sweep the planet, but it’s completely unclear whose diabolical plan lies behind the dead birds and the chain of strange murders. One thing is clear: the countdown has already begun, and there are only days, hours, minutes left to solve the mystery…