A thriller and love story set in Paris at a time of near civil war when the underground OAS was fighting the government.
Two friends have intermingling destinies: Yves Finegan a rebel French Foreign Legion Captain, Joe Bennett, a rich American house builder. They met during the war, and meet again in 1959 in Paris, where Joe Bennett starts a subsidiary, pioneering American style housing estates, but falling foul of an unscrupulous and cupid Colonel Buretta.
For Captain Yves Finegan, the time has come to rebel once more against the government, to prevent Algerian independence; and he becomes head of the Paris underground activist army-led OAS.
Their stories are told through the eyes of an English quantity surveyor working for Joe, and who is also Captain Finegan’s son-in-law. He accompanies them as they search for a common solution to their very different problems.
This is factual fiction – a mixture of personally experienced facts, and authentic historical events concerning the French Algerian drama.