1. Night Soldiers
Bulgaria, 1934. After fascists murder his younger brother, Khristo Stoianev is recruited by the Soviet intelligence service and taken to Moscow for clandestine training. His education in surveillance, deception and political discipline leads him into the Spanish Civil War, where Soviet operatives, international volunteers and rival…
2. Dark Star
Europe, 1937. André Szara, a Polish-born Jewish journalist for the Soviet newspaper Pravda, travels between Moscow, Paris, Berlin and Prague while carrying out assignments for the NKVD. Ordered to cultivate a German industrialist whose company supplies strategically important metal wire, Szara enters a world in which…
3. The Polish Officer
Poland, September 1939. With Warsaw collapsing under German attack, Captain Alexander de Milja is recruited into the newly forming Polish underground. His first mission is to help move the national gold reserve out of the country aboard a refugee train, an operation in which military discipline…
4. The World at Night
Paris, May 1940. Jean Casson is a successful film producer whose comfortable life is overturned by the German invasion and the rapid defeat of France. As the capital adjusts to occupation, the cinema industry becomes entangled with censorship, collaboration and the demands of people who understand…
5. Red Gold
Occupied Paris, 1941. Jean Casson lives under an assumed identity after the failure of his earlier intelligence work. Germany’s attack on the Soviet Union changes the politics of occupation: French communists, previously constrained by the Nazi–Soviet pact, are ordered into active resistance and need weapons, money…
6. Kingdom of Shadows
Paris, 1938. Nicholas Morath, a Hungarian aristocrat working in advertising, is recruited by his uncle, the diplomat Count Janos Polanyi, for unofficial operations intended to defend Hungary from Nazi domination. Carrying messages, money and documents, Morath moves through Budapest, the Sudeten crisis and the contested borderlands…
7. Blood of Victory
Istanbul, autumn 1940. I. A. Serebin, a Russian émigré writer, is recruited by British intelligence for a mission directed at Germany’s access to Romanian petroleum. Because the Axis war economy depends heavily on oil moving from the Ploiești fields toward Central Europe, transport routes, river barges…
8. Dark Voyage
May 1941. The Dutch freighter Noordendam, commanded by Eric DeHaan, is placed under British naval intelligence and disguised as the neutral Spanish vessel Santa Rosa. Its outwardly commercial voyages allow the ship to carry agents, refugees, supplies and secret cargo through waters patrolled by submarines, aircraft…
9. The Foreign Correspondent
Paris, 1938. Carlo Weisz reports for Reuters while helping to produce Liberazione, a clandestine newspaper written by Italian anti-fascists in exile. When the paper’s editor is murdered by Mussolini’s secret police, Weisz inherits a role that exposes both the publication and its network of couriers, printers…
10. The Spies of Warsaw
Warsaw, 1937. Colonel Jean-François Mercier, the French military attaché, uses diplomatic receptions, railway journeys and covert contacts to investigate German rearmament. Evidence of new armoured tactics and military preparations is difficult to obtain and still harder to persuade cautious governments to treat as an immediate threat.…
11. Spies of the Balkans
Salonika, 1940. Costa Zannis, a senior police official with access to the city’s diplomatic and criminal networks, works amid the uncertainty created by Italy’s attack on Greece. Reports that Germany may intervene turn the port into a meeting place for agents, refugees, smugglers and officials preparing…
12. Mission to Paris
Paris, late summer 1938. Fredric Stahl, an Austrian-born Hollywood actor, arrives to make a film as the crisis over Czechoslovakia intensifies. Nazi officials and French sympathisers see his fame as a means of influencing public opinion and pressure him to appear at events that would turn…
13. Midnight in Europe
Paris, 1938. Cristián Ferrar, a Spanish lawyer working for an international firm, assists the embattled Spanish Republic in purchasing weapons despite the restrictions and evasions of European non-intervention. The task requires financial intermediaries, forged end-user arrangements and transport routes capable of surviving diplomatic pressure and enemy…
14. A Hero of France
Paris, March 1941. Mathieu leads a small resistance cell that hides downed British and Polish airmen, supplies them with false papers and moves them toward routes across the Pyrenees. The work depends on railway employees, innkeepers, forgers and couriers whose ordinary occupations allow a clandestine chain…
15. Under Occupation
Paris, 1942. Novelist Paul Ricard witnesses a pursued courier pass a technical drawing to a stranger moments before German forces close in. The fragment draws him into a resistance operation seeking information about German weapons production, despite his lack of training and the severe risks imposed…