[This book is written in French.] Après Les Hauts Murs, La Loi des rues constitue le second volet de l'autobiographie d'Auguste le Breton. Il y fait un truculent récit de la cavale de l'adolescent et sa découverte du Milieu des truands parisiens. The start of a summer's night, the start of Hera's ordeal. She is going to get rid of the child she is expecting from a deadbeat. And with this child, Hera has betrayed another man. A story of bitter and violent revenge in a small, secretive provincial town having a rookie policeman out of his league.