The triumvirate of the Milice’s inner circle was a nest of vipers: Chief Inspector Gaston, Vivienne (The Artist), and Captain Dupont.
One was the head of intelligence, another a high-profile defector from the SOE, and the third a brutal enforcer. Arthur de Molay paced his office at 83 Avenue Foch, weighing their loyalties. It couldn't be Gaston; the man was too invested in the Vichy status quo. And Dupont? The man had personally overseen the execution of nearly a hundred Resistance fighters. If Dupont were the mole, the SOE was sacrificing an army just to keep one man in place.
That left Vivienne. But why would she defect only to play a double game?
After ten minutes of brooding silence, Arthur picked up the heavy black receiver and dialed the Gestapo headquarters at the Hotel Ritz. He
