A noir novel that deconstructs the heroic myth of the French Resistance.

September 10, 1944: it's pushing ninety in the shade in Saint-Julien-en-Vercors, a town in southeastern France. The discovery of a dead body in the woods throws a monkey wrench into Commissioner Georges Duroy's day. The victim? The daughter of a family of Resistance fighters, raped, her throat slit. Judith Ashton, a young American war photographer, dogs Duroy's every move. But what will happen when they find out the killers are in fact people everyone calls heroes?