Alain Gaudry

A woman leaves her husband and marries another man without divorcing the first.

南仏のニース。この町では最近、腐敗した警察と犯罪組織がすっかり癒着して、麻薬や売春の絡んだ犯罪事件が多発。警部がモーテルの一室で売春婦と一緒に殺害される事件まで起きるが、2人の死体は、崖から転落死したかのように偽装処理される。そんなさなか、パリから町へやって来たのは、汚職対策専門の敏腕警部スタン。彼は、偽名を使って巧みに犯罪組織に潜入すると、型破りな方法で町にはびこる悪を次々と暴き出していく。

In the middle of the night, deputy Philippe Dubaye wakes up his old friend Xavier Maréchal with disturbing news: he has just killed Serrano, a racketeer with extant political connections. Serrano kept proofs of Dubaye's involvement in corrupt dealings and was poised to use them against the deputy. Xavier readily agrees to cover up for his old pal Philippe, but he soon runs into difficulties. Nobody believes Dubaye's alibi. And everybody -- influential personalities, powerful businessmen, dubious go-betweens and the police -- wants to get hold of the documents that served to blackmail Dubaye; by all possible means...