Secrets of State

In our world, terrorist groups and intelligence agencies are engaged in a merciless war in the name of radically opposing ideologies. Yet terrorists and secret agents lead almost the same lives. Condemned to secrecy, these masters of manipulation are slaves to the same tactics. Take Alex and Al Barad: one heads the counter-terrorist unit of the DGSE (France's CIA), the other is the leader of a terrorist network, and they come at each other with the most ruthless of weapons—humans. SECRET DÉFENSE is the story of their battle, told through the eyes of Diane, a student recruited by the French secret service, and Pierre, a lost soul who thinks he'll find salvation in terrorism. Trained and indoctrinated for missions beyond their grasp, they are trapped in a chain of events they can't manage to escape. Will they ultimately be sacrificed in the name of their "noble" causes? (jakelijan virallinen teksti)