January, 2020. Two West Bank investors launch a surgical mask production process. A young hacker is assassinated in the outskirts of Reims. A pandemic is threatening Europe. Governments declare a state of emergency, their strategic stocks are empty and secret services throughout the world are trying to get their hands on mask stored in Asia. Hundreds of millions of masks disappear from the market. These events are linked.
All these conditions are fulfilled so that MECH - the criminal organization said to be linked to NATO - can try to benefit from this crisis while reaping record-breaking profits.
In the meantime, the French President calls upon ASPIC, the most secret French intelligence agency. To thwart MECH's plans, Saint Val, the agency's top spy, tries to track down the masks that were stolen.
From the Farm, which is ASPIC's unofficial headquarters, to the Elysée Palace, Luxembourg, Brussels, and Vietnam, follow his journey with never a dull moment, in which the characters and situations will remind you of the darkest days in spy novels and perhaps also in reality…
