NYPD detective Jack Dilger is on the trail of a chic art dealer fencing old masters to Columbian drug dealers until he's taken off the case. An ocean away, police inspector Madeleine Leclerq digs up proof of corrupt politicans 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 an addiction more dangerous than cocaine, more intoxicating than brute power and as threatening as death itself.