Book summary

In 1940, as Hitler's troops are marching into Paris, a writer named Serebin finds himself in Istanbul, where he is beginning to realize that, despite his fervent hopes, the world really has become a different place. Hooking up with a Hungarian secret agent, Serebin goes to work for the Allies trying to disrupt German supply lines--an eminently dangerous task to begin with, but his assignment is one that previous agents have tried and failed to complete....

Media reviews

"As usual, Furst adheres strictly to the rules of the genre....But his debts to convention work in his favor. Densely atmospheric and genuinely romantic...."