Captain Yannick Corsan, member of the Action Service of the DGSE (the General Directorate of External Security, in France), is barely recovering from the disappearance of his wife when his superiors suggest he return to the field.
The issue? Exfiltrate “Canaque”, their clandestine agent who, himself, infiltrated a terrorist organization in Mali, which is preparing to commit a major attack. And even if he has, for the moment, the confidence of the director of operations Marcel Gaingouin, the same cannot be said of the head of the department, Marie-Jeanne Duthilleul. Even the geek on duty, Jonas Maury, will prove…
Oh, but, wait…Gaingouin, Duthilleul, Maury? But yes! Here we are again in The Legends Officethe French spy TV series, a phenomenon of the last decade. And if “Malotru” is no more, the author Thomas Cantaloube has not touched the rest – namely an astonishing story of truth and bureaucracy in the bosom of French espionage: these “seagulls”, a nickname actually given to the members of the Action Service whose missions never officially exist, form the body of a spin-off of the Bureau. A spin-off, which will initially be embodied in a series of novels (Thomas Cantaloube leaves no doubt about this, as the ending of this first is open) before becoming in turn a TV series. A very commercial micmac, but fortunately served by an author who knows what he is talking about, and how to talk about it. So read it before watching it soon.
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