While performing maintenance operation at the nuclear power plant in Nogent-sur-Seine, Frédéric Weissman, a technician in his 30s, makes an operational error. But the mistake, which will lead to the largest nuclear accident in history, is far from accidental. It was a political statement, the first act of a sweeping attack by an organized group of ecological extremists.

Persuaded that political leaders are incapable of responding effectively to the environmental crisis, and that the very existence of humanity is under imminent threat, they have decided that violence is the only way to put a stop to infinite industrial expansion and to bring France to its knees via an operation whose ramifications will spread to the heart of Paris.

These stunningly realistic pages are both a tale of chilling fury and an immersion in the psychology of the ecoterrorist network.