Solitaire — Catherine Gruben

Underneath the French A15 Interstate, where it towers over the river Seine, sits a warehouse. It is particularly uninteresting, just a gray rectangle, like an overgrown cinderblock. But to a team of American spies it is extremely interesting; it's the building Simeon Lee picked to unmask a terrorist of an unusual sort. Simeon's best friend is in trouble, framed for terrorist activity by someone calling themselves ‘Solitaire,' and that's not something the Parabaloni are willing to overlook. At that singularly ugly warehouse the four spies must bring together Gigan's family of Parisian smugglers, all the law-enforcement they can pack into three rooms, a crowd of Islamic terrorist, one crooked inventor, and this unexplained Solitaire. But once there, will Simeon manage to draw a confession out, or will Solitaire end the night by his favorite method of igniting TNT, and blow them all straight to minuscule pieces?