Daily case of October 5, 2026
A discreet Geneva conference centre overlooking the dark expanse of Lake Geneva, 1968. Wood-panelled rooms, jet-age glamour, and the quiet hum of a state-of-the-art flight control simulator hide deep professional and ideological tensions. The air is thick with cigar smoke, expensive cologne, and the unspoken fear that the new European airspace merger might never take flight.
Open this fileHenri Dubois — Chief negotiator for the French air traffic control union, a staunch traditionalist fiercely resisting the merger.
Veteran British Controller — Long-time professional rival and ideological opponent.
Ambitious German Technocrat — Co-negotiator who saw the victim as an obstacle to progress and a personal threat.
Fiery French Union Leader — The victim's direct superior and political ally, but with growing personal friction.
Pragmatic Canadian Liaison Officer — Neutral mediator who found the victim's inflexibility frustrating and exhausting.
Suave American Consultant — Representing the merging consortiums, saw the victim as a minor nuisance to be managed.
Swiss Diplomat and Host — Ostensibly neutral host, but his family bank holds significant loans to the struggling French union.
The culprit, the alibis and the clue logic are locked before your first chapter. The narrator does not know the solution: it can neither leak it nor rewrite it when you close in.