The Bureau
Over the DGSE (General Directorate for External Security), a section called the Office Of Legends (BDL) forms and remote pilot the most crucial agents of their French intellect services: Clandestine. Immersion in hostile country, their job is to discover individuals who might be recruited as sources of advice. Operating"under caption", which is to say in an artificial identity from scratch, so they live for many years in a lasting duplicity. Our hero just returned by a mission that was covert six years in Damascus. But contrary to what is demanded by safety rules, he does not abandon his legend and also the identity under which he lived in Syria, hence investing the whole system.