Daniel Gerroll

Costa Zannis is the dashing chief detective of Salonika in 1940. He becomes involved in an audacious plot - smuggling Jews to Istanbul, through the back door of Europe. The British hear he can penetrate the continent's closed borders, and he is soon embroiled in the resistance, and in a reckless love affair that could jeopardise everything.

War is coming to Europe, French and German operatives are locked in a life-and-death struggle on the espionage battlefield. At the French embassy, the new military attaché, Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier, is drawn in to a world of abduction, betrayal and intrigue in Warsaw.