The Gordian Web

Résumé du livre

When Germany invades Poland in 1939, the Nazi regime tosses dissidents into labor camps to break the will of the people. Every day Czeslaw Orlowski, an orphaned teenager, fights for his life in the camps then escapes to become a thorn in the side of the oppressors. With the pending Allied victory in Europe, Poland becomes a pawn played by the Soviet Union against the West. At the top of the NKGB's agenda: find and crush The Spider. Hiding in plain sight on a farm in Western Silesia, for Czeslaw, his new bride and family it's only a matter of time before the Russians close the noose around them. The Spider has only one hope--to ask the British for help. In exchange for that help, Czeslaw must contribute his special talents to a personal mission for Winston Churchill. The Spider then confronts a Gordian knot: can he keep his promise to the Prime Minister by slicing that knot--or will he cut the throat of his arch-nemesis.