by Alan Furst · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432296888
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«El oficial polaco» is a spy novel by Alan Furst, published by Seix Barral in paperback (392 pages, in Spanish).
In 1939, with Warsaw about to fall, Captain Alexander de Milja is recruited by the Polish Resistance. He must move the gold reserves of the National Bank of Poland, hidden on a refugee train, to a safe place. A spy novel about the clandestine struggle against the German occupation and ordinary people turned into heroes.
The original novel was published in 1995; this Spanish edition appeared in 2007 and is set at the beginning of the Second World War.
For readers of historical and spy fiction in the classic style, with suspense and a setting in occupied Europe.
Alan Furst is an American author of historical spy novels. Furst has been called "an heir to the tradition of Eric Ambler and Graham Greene," whom he cites along with Joseph Roth and Arthur Koestler as important influences. Most of his novels since 1988 have been set just prior to or during the Second World War and he is noted for his successful evocations of Eastern European peoples and places during the period from 1933 to 1944.
