All Blacks great Dan Carter will play in France for the rest of the Top 14 season after securing a short-term injury cover contract with his former club, Racing 92.
The Paris-based club announced Carter's return on the big video screen during their 34-29 home defeat to Toulouse on Sunday (Monday New Zealand time), RMC Sport confirmed.
Racing also announced the Carter comeback on its official Twitter account, simply saying: "He is back".
Carter has gained a release from his Japanese club, Kobelco Steelers, who he helped to win the Top League title in his first season in Japan.
Racing 92 have been looking for cover in the inside backs since former Springbok Pat Lambie was forced to retire late last year after a series of concussions.
Carter - who will turn 37 on March 5 - will arrive in Paris in early March, according to the RMC report.
The Cantabrian first joined Racing in 2015 after helping the All Blacks win the Rugby World Cup.
He was part of Racing's 2016 Top 14 championship winning team and helped them to two silver medals in the European Champions Cup.
Carter, who won 112 All Black caps, scored 445 points in 58 games for Racing.
He left at the end of the 2017-18 season to join the Kobelco Steelers.
Carter has the rare distinction of being on title winning teams in three countries - New Zealand, France and Japan.
Carter has been home in Auckland since completing the Japanese season in December.
He and wife Honor, a former Black Sticks hockey international, welcomed their third son, Rocco, in mid-January.
Carter was on the sidelines as a pre-match television analyst before the Blues-Crusaders Super Rugby game last Saturday.
The All Blacks veteran is likely to understudy Scottish test first five-eighth Finn Russell at Racing.
Russell joined the Paris club from the Glasgow Warriors after Carter's departure last year.
Fijian international Ben Volavola, who had a year with the Crusaders in 2016, has been covering for Russell, who has Six Nations commitments with Scotland.
The Rugby Rama website had speculated that veteran former French international Francois Trinh-Duc would leave Toulon for Racing, but later reported there had been no contact between the two clubs.
Carter made no secret of how much he enjoyed his first stint in France.
He told Agence France Presse soon after his arrival in Paris, that he was enjoying the anonymity of life in the French capital.
"I was a little surprised to be recognised, but in other ways I am left in peace not like in New Zealand. It's refreshing,"
Carter hit the headlines while in Paris after he was caught drink driving and speeding in February 2017.
He lost his licence for five months and later admitted to Radio Sport that he "felt sick about" the offence.
On his return to Racing, Carter will have plenty of Kiwi company.
His former All Blacks teammate Joe Rokocoko, 35, is still on the club's books, along with ex-Crusaders lock Dominic Bird.
The Racing coaching staff includes Carter's former All Black colleagues Chris Masoe and Casey Laulala, who had six seasons with Carter at the Crusaders.