false 918284 12 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 Ukraine, and at Calais Harbor during an attack by British bombers, de Milja fights in the war of the shadows in a world without rules, a world of danger, treachery, and betrayal. 1769725 1900 The Polish Officer total:377|5:99|4:197|3:68|2:8|1:5| 377 1508 523 47 4 3 false false Wed Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Jun 21 10:25:48 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 21 14:49:49 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 14:35:11 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 15:06:48 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Wed Sep 12 22:22:07 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 13 18:59:44 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Jan 30 11:07:59 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 28 09:46:26 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 28 09:51:13 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 13:37:05 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 09 10:51:09 -0700 2009 Furst novel before, The Foreign Correspondent. I was happy to find this volume as good as that one.

Furst's style is the most noticeable part of his work. Many scenes feel more like an impressionist painting than a photograph of historical events. A times this works very...more...]]> 2 0 false true Fri Jun 05 13:33:34 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 13:20:28 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 13:33:34 -0700 2009
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The struggles of Alexander de Milja, a Polish map maker, working for his government's intelligence services, to survive the German/Ru...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 12:42:06 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 12:47:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Oct 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 27 22:00:07 -0700 2008 Tue Feb 17 13:05:59 -0800 2009 This is the third volume in Furst's "Night Soldiers" series, although most of the series need not be read in the order published: only The World at Night and Red Gold relate directly as a sequential pair. For those that wish the read the books in sequence, Dark Star precedes this and The World at Night...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jan 04 17:03:18 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 11:50:13 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Apr 17 10:19:05 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 17 10:19:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 true false Fri Nov 28 06:14:54 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 27 20:14:07 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 28 06:14:54 -0800 2008 1/2
A lightweight paperback (in oh so many ways) it didn't even satisfy when I finally hurled it across the room about 100 pages in.

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