The Polish Officer: A Novel - Softcover

Furst, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375758275 ISBN 13: 9780375758270

Publisher: Random House Trade, 2001

Synopsis

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."

About this title

Review:

"Beautifully written, powerfully imagined, and riveting as pure story....The book is a triumph."
--Charles McCarry

"Brilliantly imagined, vividly drawn, rich with incident and detail....The Polish Officer portrays ordinary men and women caught out on the sharp edge of military intelligence operations in wartime: the partisans, saboteurs, resistance fighters and idealistic volunteers risking their lives in causes that seem lost."
--Robert Chatain, Chicago Tribune

"[A] riveting 'pure' story...wonderfully exact...transcends the spy novel while delivering everything any fan of le Carré could ask for."
--Robin Winks, The Boston Globe

Book Description:

From the master of the historical spy thriller, a story set in the heart of the Polish resistance

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Trade
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0375758275
• ISBN 13: 9780375758270
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320