Hugo watches as his friend Max is kidnapped right in front of him. As an ex-FBI agent and now the head of security for the US Embassy in Paris, Hugo begins to investigate who has taken Max and how to bring them to justice, since the police seem uninterested. Hugo digs into Max's past and finds unexpected clues and interesting facts about this man he's known for years.

I don't know that I would have picked this book up without it being for my book club. And I would have missed out on a good book. It's got all the needs for a mystery. Intrigue, romance, murder, drugs, history, and an awesome setting for it all to happen. The characters could be more fleshed out, but the plot kept the pages turning and kept my interest up until the end, even though I guessed what would happen before it did.

Still, I'm curious what the rest of Hugo's adventures will entail.