The Polish Officer
By Alan Furst
1995
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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.
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Author
Alan Furst
Author · 18 books
Alan Furst is widely recognized as the current master of the historical spy novel. Born in New York, he has lived for long periods in France, especially Paris. He now lives on Long Island. Night Soldiers novels * Night Soldiers (1988) * Dark Star (1991) * The Polish Officer (1995) * The World at Night (1996) * Red Gold (1999) * Kingdom of Shadows (2000) * Blood of Victory (2003) * Dark Voyage (2004) * The Foreign Correspondent (2006) * The Spies of Warsaw (2008) * Spies of the Balkans (2010) * Mission to Paris (2012) * Midnight in Europe (2013) * Under Occupation (2019) Stand-alone novels * Your day in the barrel (1976) * The Paris drop (1980) * The Caribbean Account (1981) * Shadow Trade (1983) For more information, see Wikipedia.
