The Polish Officer

By: Alan Furst

Fiction

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...