Arthur is ten years old. He lives with his father on the Breton coast and learns to trust no one: not teachers, not neighbors, not friends—all of them could be disguised Stewards sowing chaos and injustice. Father and son transform their home into a headquarters, receive encrypted messages from their comrades, the secret organization known as the Allies, and prepare for the coming war against the forces of evil. But one day, Arthur's father mysteriously disappears, forcing the boy to leave his fortress-like home and set out into a hostile world to search for him.

In his new book, Flemish artist Brecht Evens, author of "Panther," "Night Owls," and "The Amateurs," weaves conspiracy theories and a child's unwavering faith in the righteousness of adults, creating a paranoid world in which the boundaries between truth and fiction blur.