Come barbarians

the long version

Christopher Kruse has moved to the south of France with his family to escape his past as a high-priced security agent and his guilt over old wrongs. But the Kruses find themselves drawn into a web of political gamesmanship and murder. and when his wife disappears, Christopher must draw on his old instincts to find her, ahead of the police and two sinister members of a Corsican crime family. As Christopher's desperate search leads him closer to his wife, it pulls him deeper into the dangerous machinations of the most powerful leaders in the country.