Wolves in the City presents the first comprehensive account of how Algeria gained independence from France in the face of fanatical resistance by the notorious OAS (l"Organisation de l"Armée Secrète). It is in many ways a horror story - dealing heavily in assassination, plastiquage and blood, filled with men like Roger Degueldre, head of the barbaric OAS Delta commandos, and Jean-Jacques Susini, the fascist-intellectual power broker of the OAS; and, of course, there are the famous adversary Generals, Raoul Salan, Chief of the Secret Army, and Charles de Gaulle, monarch of French political life, a man almost destroyed by the violence of decolonizing Algeria in his own mysterious fashion. Out of a maelstrom of insanely complex, irrational political maneuvering, mixed with the agonizing brutality of OAS murder plots and Algerian FLN (Front de Libération Nationale) counter-terrorism, Paul Henissart has managed to create an intense and vivid portrait of one of the last great upheavals marking the death of colonialism in Africa.