Egipt, 1955. Kairo je pravo leglo vohunov. Nihče nikomur ne zaupa in vsi spletkarijo proti vsem. Francoski tajni agent Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath (OSS 117) je poslan v Kairo, da bi raziskal izginotje svojega najboljšega prijatelja in kolega vohuna Jacka Jeffersona, kjer naleti na mrežo mednarodnih spletk.
Leta 1967 OSS 117 pošljejo v Brazilijo, da bi pridobil mikrofilm s seznamom francoskih nacističnih simpatizerjev, a se znova nevede zaplete v večjo mednarodno zaroto.
Piše se leto 1981. Po uspešnem pobegu iz sovjetskega ujetništva v Afganistanu se Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath, znan tudi kot tajni agent 117, znajde na delovnem mestu davčnega računovodje v tajni službi. Toda ko posebni agent 1001 tik pred načrtovanim srečanjem s predsednikom Bambom izgine v akciji, Huberta pošljejo v Afriko, da bi našel svojega mlajšega kolega...
Within the DGSE (General Directorate for External Security), a department called the Office Of Legends (BDL) forms and remote pilot the most important agents of the French intelligence services: Clandestine. Immersion in hostile country, their mission is to identify individuals who may be recruited as sources of information. Operating "under caption", that is to say in a fabricated identity from scratch, they live for many years in a permanent duplicity. Our hero just returned from a clandestine mission six years in Damascus. But contrary to what is required by safety rules, he does not abandon his legend and the identity under which he lived in Syria, thus putting in danger the whole system.
At the height of the Cold War in 1960, André Merlaux joins the French Secret Service and contends with enemies both foreign and bureaucratic.
