The Stone Leopard: Colin Forbes

USA is Shackville...This barbaric American civilization...So speaks the President of France before he leaves for a Moscow summit meeting. Is some world-shaking conspiracy planned during his absence? Marc Grelle, Prefect of the Paris Police, uncovers plans by hard-line Communists for a coup. Plunged into a maze of intrigue, he detects a link between the wartime resistance hero - The Leopard - and the plot. But it was believe the Leopard was dead. Could he still be alive, his identity unknown? Could he be masterminding the conspiracy? Grelle pursues the idea that one of four Cabinet ministers could be this invisible plotter. Working with the help of British and German agents, pursued by professional assassins, Grelle fights to unravel the mystery before it is too late...