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Pierre Nora's suspenseful novel Double Crime on the Maginot Line is the first French spy novel. In response to the threat of Nazi Germany's attack, France is building powerful defences in the north-east, the so-called Maginot Line.

Everyone feared German spies penetrating the defence secrets of this miracle of military technology. The hero of the novel is not a Great Detective at all, but only a good soldier in the service of his homeland.