Fursts books are like Chopins nocturnes timeless, transcendent, universal. One does not so much read them as fall under their spell. —Los Angeles Times, on The Spies of Warsaw Greece, 1940. Not sunny vacation Greece northern Greece, Macedonian Greece, Balkan Greece—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 Mussolinis invasion, pushing his divisions back to Albania—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. At the center of this drama is Constantine Costa Zannis, a senior police official, head of an office that handles special political cases.
