![]() He is tapped by the British Secret Intelligence Service, who want to use his network to get a downed British airman, who happens also to be an important scientist, out of occupied France. Zannis, the upright Greek cop, finds himself organizing and running a refugee network, starting in Berlin and funnelling German Jews through the port of Salonika and on to Alexandria and Palestine. The Wehrmacht waits to feast on the remains. ![]() Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Romania are coming apart at the seams, morally and politically. The Italians invade northern Greece and are shoved back across the Albanian frontier. Great hatreds have been lovingly polished and carefully stored. This is world under threat, and not an innocent world, either: Wars, civil and otherwise, have occupied the Balkans for at least 2,000 years. ![]() If you were ever in Rick's Nightclub in Casablanca in, say, 1940, when Sam was on the piano and Ingrid Bergman was in town and falling for Rick all over again, then you know the sort of guy Zannis is, and the sets of choices he finds himself operating within. ![]()
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