Publisher's Synopsis
"Beautifully written, powerfully imagined, and riveting as pure story... the book is a triumph." Charles McCarry "The author understands, with astounding breadth of vision... what WWII was all about... a truly splendid novel of the wartime experience." Kirkus Reviews 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. 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 Harbour, de Milja fights in the war of shadows in a world without rules. It is a world of danger, treachery and betrayal. Alan Furst, an acknowledged master of the espionage thriller, has produced a stunning achievement in THE POLISH OFFICER: dark, evocative, authentic and taut with suspense.
