Les derniers jours de nos pères

London, 1940. To strike back after the rout at Dunkirk, Winston Churchill creates a secret black branch of the intelligence services, the Special Operations Executive, tasked with sabotage and espionage behind enemy lines. Young Paul-Émile leaves Paris for London hoping to join the Resistance and is recruited into the SOE, training across England alongside the comrades who become his band of brothers, before being sent back into occupied France, where German counter-intelligence lies in wait. Joël Dicker’s debut novel.