Hardy

When Luc Hardy tries to leave his job working for the Fournier crime family on the Cote d’Azure he is forced to disappear for a while. He decides to return to Marseilles, the home he left some fifteen years before, where his father and sister are still living. He finds his father in Hospital and his sister frightened by a group of men who have been harassing them.

When his father dies after a visit from a mysterious priest Luc concludes that he has been murdered. The police, however, are not interested. Then somebody threatens Luc and his sister. When Luc starts his own investigation he is drawn into a strange world of family secrets, lies and further threats.

Just as he is getting to grips with all this, the Fourniers come back into his life. Luc is forced to go on the run again but this time he is not alone. His sister and his Lawyer are with him and he has to figure out why they are all being chased. With little to go on Luc sets about fighting back but he has no idea what or who is the enemy.

Hardy includes many characters from Freeman, the first book of the Cathar Trilogy