Book description
September, 1939. The invading Germans blaze a trail of destruction
across Poland. France and Britain declare war, but do nothing to help.
And a Polish resistance movement takes shape under the shadow of
occupation, enlisting those willing to risk death in the struggle for
their nation's survival. Among them is Captain Alexander de Milja, an
officer in the Polish military intelligence service, a cartographer who
now must learn a dangerous new role: spymaster in the anti-Nazi
underground. Beginning with a daring operation to smuggle the Polish
National Gold Reserve to the government in exile, he slips into the
shadowy and treacherous front lines of espionage; he moves through
Europe, changing identities and staying one step ahead of capture. In
Warsaw, he engineers a subversive campaign to strengthen the people's
will to resist. In Paris, he poses as a Russian poet, then as a
Slovakian coal merchant, drinking champagne in black-market bistros with
Nazis while uncovering information about German battle plans. And a love
affair with a woman of the French Resistance leads him to make the
greatest decision of his life.
