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Paris, 1802. Napoleon Bonaparte has just been proclaimed First Consul
and Fouché, angry with this appointment, quits the Ministry of Police.
François ‘The Torpedo’, an escaped prisoner from the penal colony where
he was sent for various crimes, has just been caught red-handed for
swindling. But to his great surprise, he’s not dragged to a sordid
dungeon but taken instead to the sumptuous office of Napoleon Bonaparte.
The First Consul entrusts him with a delicate mission: find, as
quickly as possible, the overnight bag which a prostitute called Opale
had hidden from him in a moment of distraction. This bag contains a
secret that cannot be revealed… In fact, the woman was hired to do
this. Furious at having been stripped of his functions at the Ministry
of Police, Fouché paid dearly for her to bring him this object of
intrigue. Unfortunately for him and for his rival, Opale has disappeared
without a trace. In the seedy part of town where she had plied her
trade, neither the other prostitutes nor her regular customers know what
has become of her. Her disappearance equally irritates her pimp, the
imposing Amédée. Sensing an affair of State of the utmost importance,
‘The Torpedo’ has undertaken an investigation of his own.
Just two years into the 19th century, Napoleon has already been making a
name for himself and dark plots have begun to emerge from the lowest
and highest levels of France.
