This novel and Red Lights, both translated by Norman Denny, were published together in 1955 by Hamish Hamilton as Danger Ahead.
[1] The story is seen from the viewpoint of David Galloway, a watchmaker who lives with his sixteen-year-old son Ben in a village in New York state.
I shall always be on your side...."[3] An FBI man, looking through Ben's belongings, takes away an almanac which has crosses against Illinois and Mississippi, states having low minimum ages for the granting of marriage licences.
In the Federal Building he learns that Ben has refused to see him, and is being taken to Liberty, the capital of the county in New York State where the murder was committed.
The modified story is set in his home city of Lyon, and features Philippe Noiret as the watchmaker.