Costa Zannis has rapidly risen through the ranks of the police in
Salonika. Hitler's armies are poised to invade Greece and Zannis finds
himself in the midst of an oncoming war. He has just dealt with the
death of a German national and now he has a German Jew who is trying to
smuggle children through Greece to Turkey to deal with.
Later that same woman wants Zannis to help smuggle more Jews. However,
before he can consider that, Italy invades Greece. Being a reservist,
Zannis is called up. Things are quiet for the most part because
Mussolini's troops have invaded late in the year and the mountains are
an advantage to the Greeks.
Zannis is tasked with liaising with Marko Pavlic from Yugoslavia. They
find to each other's delight that they are both policemen.
Unfortunately for both of them, their war doesn't last very long
because their barracks is bombed. Before parting ways Zannis convinces
Pavlic to become involved in the smuggling of Jews out of Germany. Back
in Salonika, Zannis begins to set up his network.
How long can the network stay up and running before the Gestapo break it
down? Will Hitler's ambitions for the Balkan countries stop the
network? Author Alan Furst has written an exciting spy thriller that
the reader will find as hard to put down as I did.
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