Set in Warsaw, Silesia, and Paris, Furst's stunning, action-packed thriller combines espionage with deadly romance, all happening during the rearing threat of Hitler's gathering war against Europe.

Set in Warsaw, Silesia, and Paris, Furst's stunning, action-packed thriller combines espionage with deadly romance, all happening during the rearing threat of Hitler's gathering war against Europe.

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War is coming to Europe. French and German intelligence operatives are locked in a life-and-death struggle on the espionage battlefield. At the French embassy, in Warsaw, the new military attach , Colonel Jean-Fran ois Mercier, a decorated hero of the 1914 war, is drawn into a world of abduction, betrayal, and intrigue in the diplomatic salons and back alleys of the city. At the same time, the handsome aristocrat finds himself in a passionate love affair with a Parisian woman of Polish heritage, a lawyer for the League of Nations. Risking his life, Colonel Mercier must work in the shadows, amid an extraordinary cast of venal characters, some known to Mercier as spies, some never to be revealed.