"Nestor Burma, ace detective, is France's answer to Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe. ... Set in the early days of World War II, in German-occupied France, Nestor Burma must survive and work in a country ruled by Nazis who literally hold the power of life and death over everyone in France. In an attempt to fulfill a dying man's plea, Nestor Burma, owner of the Fiat Lux Detective Agency in Paris, finds himself quickly enmeshed in a dangerous web of deceit and betrayal involving French collaborators and the terrifying, all-powerful Gestapo. ..."--Page 4 of cover.