The Polish Officer, Paperback
Descriere
September 1939. As Warsaw falls to Hitler s Wehrmacht, Captain Alexander de Milja is recruited by the intelligence service of the Polish underground. His mission: to transport the national gold reserve to safety, hidden on a refugee train to Bucharest. Then, in the back alleys and black-market bistros of Paris, in the tenements of Warsaw, with partizan guerrillas in the frozen forests of the Ukraine, and at Calais Harbor during an attack by British bombers, de Milja fights in the war of the shadows in a world without rules, a world of danger, treachery, and betrayal.""
Despre autor
Alan Furst este un autor american de romane istorice de spionaj. Furst a fost numit „un urmaș al tradiției lui Eric Ambler și Graham Greene”, pe care îi citează alături de Joseph Roth și Arthur Koestler ca influențe importante.