The american trail - xavier dupont de ligonnès: a cop at the heart of the case - volume 2

“The American Trail” is the sequel to the book “Xavier Dupont De Ligonnès: a cop at the heart of the case”, released in February 2026. 20,000 copies were printed.

What if the key to the Ligonnès mystery lay on the other side of the Atlantic? April 2011. In Nantes, five bodies are found buried under the patio of a family home. The father, Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès, has vanished without a trace. For fifteen years, all of France has been searching for this man, who has become the country’s most famous fugitive. Suicides, monasteries, solitary escapes… every lead has been explored. Every one, or almost.

A former police officer deeply immersed in the case, the author pieces the investigation back together and brings to light a disturbing hypothesis: that of a flight to the United States. Messages announcing an imminent depa