Stories
Soda's adventures have not been published in English. Below is a list of the French titles, their year of publication, an English translation of the titles and a brief description.
| French Title | Date of Publication | English Translation | Writer | Artist |
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| "Un ange trépasse" | 1986 | Tome | Luc Warnant | |
| A young nurse held on drugs charges dramatically escapes while being transferred. Soda dismisses her claims of innocence but soon finds that he has to take them seriously if only for the sake of his mother. | ||||
| "Lettres à Satan" | 1987 | Tome | Luc Warnant | |
| Suffering from recurring nightmares, Soda opens up to a colleague and explains the circumstances that led him to become a cop and masquerade as a priest. | ||||
| "Tu ne buteras point" | 1990 | Tome | Luc Warnant / Bruno Gazzotti | |
| Soda's life is thrown into further turmoil when his uncle comes for an unexpected visit. The problem is Fortescue McIntire is a genuine priest and is keen to see his nephew's chapel. Things are made even more complicated when the congregation is made up of convicts who escape, taking Father McIntire hostage. | ||||
| "Dieu est mort ce soir" | 1992 | Tome | Bruno Gazzotti | |
| A routine check on a drug deal ends fatally for a young police officer since the purchaser happens to feed his addiction by being a hitman. The killer is quickly identified but finding him proves tricky for Soda and the owners of Harley-Davidson motorbikes. And why all the interest in a common hundred dollar bill which quickly passes through from the lowest to the highest members of New York society? | ||||
| "Fureur chez les saints" | 1993 | Tome | Bruno Gazzotti | |
| The baby daughter of a mob accountant is kidnapped in order to prevent her father from testifying against his former bosses. Soda has little time to find her. A lead takes him to a monastery where he will have to play out the role of priest and cop at their fullest. | ||||
| "Confession express" | 1994 | Tome | Bruno Gazzotti | |
| Mary is to undergo tests to see if her heart condition has improved. If she is given the all-clear Soda intends to admit that he is not a priest but a cop. But the sudden "confession" by the victim of a "hit-and-run" leads to a double race against time: keeping Mary's heart and mind at ease and preventing a major terrorist attack. | ||||
| "Lève-toi et meurs" | 1995 | Tome | Bruno Gazzotti | |
| Officer Danny Clearwater is young, good-looking and popular. Yet he refers to himself as "garbage", and for good reason: he won't hesitate to sacrifice a colleague's life in order to team up with Lieutenant Soda. His ultimate motives appear to be good ones, or are they? | ||||
| "Tuez en paix" | 1996 | Tome | Bruno Gazzotti | |
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A crime lord seeks revenge on Soda by putting a contract out on Mary, and this at a time when she finally agrees to leave the flat more often. Protecting her without her knowing it and maintaining the deception proves quite a chore for Soda and Sergeant Babs. (The title is a pun – as written, it means Kill in Peace, but sounds like "Tu est en paix" You are in/ peace.) |
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| "Et délivre-nous du mal" | 1997 | Tome | Bruno Gazzotti | |
| Soda and Mary return to their native town in order to show their respects to his late father. However, some of the locals prove far from happy by this visit and an incident on the inter-state coach simply adds fuel to their anxieties. Desperate measures are called for by both sides. | ||||
| "Dieu seul le sait" | 1999 | Tome | Bruno Gazzotti | |
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Soda suffers an accident (not uncommon in his job) but this time he also undergoes a mild form of amnesia and comes to believe that he really is a priest, complete with chapel. Officer Linda Tchaikowsky faces a very trying time in getting him back to normal. Could an escaped convict and some opera-loving gangsters be of any use? (This story is filled with references to the popular comic series XIII.) |
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| "Prières et balistique" | 2001 | Tome | Bruno Gazzotti | |
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A convict's confession leads Soda and Tchaikowsky on to a case concerning the smuggling of nuclear material. Soda for his part finds the $10 million involved rather tempting. In the meantime, Mary gets involved with a man with whom she should not, and we find an unexpected twist to Soda and Tchaikowsky's apparently formal relationship. (This story raises the issue of the availability of nuclear material on the black market.) |
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| "Code Apocalypse" | 2005 | Tome | Bruno Gazzotti | |
| Soda shoots a young man only to learn that he was a government assassin. He then learns that he is expected to carry out the assignment himself. |
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