Le Tour Finale

Le Tour Finale is a taut yet intricate thriller set in France during the famous Tour de France bicycle race and its aftermath. The story juggles essentially two protagonists: John Rexford, a former marine and covert assassin, and Alex Pena, an American policeman turned bodyguard. The US government recruits Rexford, a conditioned cyclist and assassin, to join the Tour as part of a team whose successful mission will bring an end to the current French government plot to form a military and economic partnership with Russia and render the European Union and NATO obsolete.The task quickly changes when the mission is exposed. Now Rexford and Pena must escape a country that is under military lockdown, but first rescue what is left of their team from the notorious high security prison of La Santé. The future of the European Union and NATO hang in the balance as the two men weave their way through prisons, French police, and an underground French Resistance that is not what they seem.