The Polish Officer - by Alan Furst (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In 1939, as the German army ravages his country, Captain Alexander de Milja joins the intelligence service of the Polish underground and undertakes many daring and defiant missions. "The Polish Officer" is Furst at his best: masterfully suspenseful, brilliantly atmospheric, and surprising to the last page.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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."<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Beautifully written, powerfully imagined, and riveting as pure story....The book is a triumph."<br>--Charles McCarry <p/>"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."<br>--Robert Chatain, <i>Chicago Tribune</i> <p/>"[A] riveting 'pure' story...wonderfully exact...transcends the spy novel while delivering everything any fan of le Carré could ask for."<br>--Robin Winks, <i>The Boston Globe</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Alan Furst, an acknowledged master of the European espionage thriller, has produced a stunning achievement in <b>The Polish Officer</b> dark, evocative, authentic, and taut with suspense.
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