The Fulcrum

Ten days before the European Energy Security Summit, a drunken boast at a Munich card table reaches French intelligence: the German Chancellor will not survive April. DGSI investigator Sophie Lenoir, still carrying the blame for an operation that killed her own informant, is handed a threat with no name, no face, and a shrinking clock. Somewhere between Bucharest, Marseille and Strasbourg, a patient man is measuring distance, wind and glass. She has days. He has geometry.