Spies of the Balkans

Spies of the Balkans

â€œFurstâ€™s books are like Chopinâ€™s nocturnes: timeless, transcendent, universal.

One does not so much read them as fall under their spell.â€

â€”Los Angeles Times, on The Spies of Warsaw

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Greece, 1940. Not sunny vacation Greece: northern Greece, Macedonian Greece, Balkan Greeceâ€”the city of Salonika. In that ancient port, with its wharves and brothels, dark alleys and Turkish mansions, a tense political drama is being played out. On the northern border, the Greek army has blocked Mussoliniâ€™s invasion, pushing his divisions back to Albaniaâ€”the first defeat for an ally of the Nazis, who have conquered most of Europe. But Adolf Hitler will not tolerate such defiance: in the spring he will invade the Balkans, and the people of Salonika can only watch and wait.

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At the center of this drama is Constantine â€œCostaâ€ Zannis, a senior police official, head of an office that handles special â€œpoliticalâ€ cases. As war approaches, the spies begin to circle, from the Turkish legation, from the German secret service, a travel writer sent by the British, and othersâ€”from Bulgaria? From Italy? Nobody knows. But Costa Zannis must deal with them all. And he is soon in the game, securing an escape routeâ€”from Berlin to Salonika, and then to a tenuous safety in Turkey, a route protected by German lawyers, Balkan detectives, and Hungarian gangsters. And hunted by the Gestapo.

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With extraordinary authenticity, a superb cast of characters, and heart-stopping tension as it moves from Salonika to Paris to Berlin and back, Spies of the Balkans is a stunning novel about a man who risks everything to fight back against the worldâ€™s evil.

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Country USA
Brand Simon & Schuster Audio
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster Audio
Binding Audio CD
ItemPartNumber 9781442306059
ReleaseDate 2010-06-15
UnitCount 1
Format Audiobook
EANs 9781442306059

Country	USA
Brand	Simon & Schuster Audio
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster Audio
Binding	Audio CD
ItemPartNumber	9781442306059
ReleaseDate	2010-06-15
UnitCount	1
Format	Audiobook
EANs	9781442306059

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