Blackchain (Pascual) by Martell, détaillant Dominic NEUF

"Pascual Rose, I believe? Or would it be Pascual March today?"

Anyone who knows both Pascuals names means trouble, and Pascual has a feeling that the Yank who has tracked him to a cheap Marseille bistro is going to spoil more than his lunch.

The Agency needs another favor, but theres a carrot with the stick this time-one million dollars. All Pascual has to do is deliver the ransom for some hijacked government data. But when the hackers get hacked and the new deal involves a human life, the job suddenly gets a lot more complicated.

Pascual finds his sympathies lie with the hacker, and with a hundred million dollars in gold-backed cryptocurrency at stake, he suddenly has a whole roster of enemies to go with his new friend, from Syrian thugs to mysterious Russian operatives.

The complications take Pascual to the banking district of Monaco, a secret prison in war-torn Yemen, an anarchist détaillant squat in chaotic Athens, and the haunted streets of Istanbul, with no one to trust but himself and the only certainty the need to guess right-or else.