A Nest of Spies

"A Nest of Spies" by Pierre Souvestre is a thrilling detective story set in the early 1900s, where Captain Brocq gets caught up in a dangerous plot after a fellow officer mysteriously dies and the documents he carried go missing. The story kicks off with the relationship between Captain Brocq and Bobinette where we discover Brocq’s fondness for her, and the desperation he felt for a missing document. As Brocq discovers Bobinette may have mistakenly absconded with the document, and in his eagerness to locate her, Brocq suddenly dies in a taxi, casting doubt on the true cause of his death. This sparks a series of events around hidden spies, secrets, and high tension that fill the story.