This book begins with a Parisian policeman surveying two suspicious looking punks sitting in a cafe. Turns out those punks are Frank and Joe.
Tropes found here are
- Arms Dealer: Reynard and Company sell arms to terrorist organizations such as Basque separatists and the Assassins.
- Death Faked for You: An evil version is used here to ensnare the boys into the Reynards’ employ. A fake cop named Karl pretends to have died by the boys’ hands, so as cop killers, they cannot go to the authorities. Ever.
- Evil, Inc.: Reynard and Company, headed by the Reynard brothers. It's right there in the title.
- From Camouflage to Criminal: Paul Reynard was once an officer in the French Foreign Legion, decorated for valor. But after certain methods he’d used against insurrectionists in Algeria were called into question, he grew disillusioned and decided that he might as well be a bad guy.
- Good All Along: Denise is a Sôrete agent sent to infiltrate Reynard and Company to bring them down.
- Trapped in Villainy: The boys think they are stuck working for the Reynard brothers after they kill a policeman. Or so they are lead to believe.
- Western Terrorists: Mr. Goya is a Basque separatist who wants to kidnap the son of a prominent Spanish official.
- The Worf Effect: Near the beginning of the book, the boys have to rescue the Gray Man from a pair of lowlife street punks who've cornered him in an alley.
