Laugh of the Hyenas
Book Details
Author(s)Ivan Roussetzki, Don Gabor
PublisherConversation Arts Media
ISBN / ASINB00OMG2YBG
ISBN-13978B00OMG2YB6
Sales Rank1,064,114
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
ONE STEP AHEAD OF DEATH...
The year is 1938. German tanks roll over Czechoslovakia as the world nervously awaits Hitler’s next move.
To counter the looming Nazi threat in Europe French intelligence officer, Jean Lopié recruits a popular Paris prostitute, Helen Noverman, to spy with him for British Intelligence. Their first assignment takes them to vulnerable Norway where they have a near-fatal encounter with Lopié’s arch-enemy, an aristocratic Gestapo Colonel, nicknamed “Lupus.â€
On British orders, Lopié and Noverman ensnare Dr. Manol Belevski, a prominent surgeon, and force him to spy for the British in Sofia, Bulgaria. George Milev, the Bulgarian Chief of the Secret Police, hunts British spies for Lupus, but becomes obsessed with saving Helen Noverman. After Belevski narrowly escapes arrest by the Gestapo his life as a spy unravels.
This historical novel, set in Paris, Oslo, Istanbul, and Sofia, Bulgaria during the early years of World War II, tells a twisting tale of revenge, blackmail, murder, and shifting loyalties that keep the characters just one step ahead of death.
The year is 1938. German tanks roll over Czechoslovakia as the world nervously awaits Hitler’s next move.
To counter the looming Nazi threat in Europe French intelligence officer, Jean Lopié recruits a popular Paris prostitute, Helen Noverman, to spy with him for British Intelligence. Their first assignment takes them to vulnerable Norway where they have a near-fatal encounter with Lopié’s arch-enemy, an aristocratic Gestapo Colonel, nicknamed “Lupus.â€
On British orders, Lopié and Noverman ensnare Dr. Manol Belevski, a prominent surgeon, and force him to spy for the British in Sofia, Bulgaria. George Milev, the Bulgarian Chief of the Secret Police, hunts British spies for Lupus, but becomes obsessed with saving Helen Noverman. After Belevski narrowly escapes arrest by the Gestapo his life as a spy unravels.
This historical novel, set in Paris, Oslo, Istanbul, and Sofia, Bulgaria during the early years of World War II, tells a twisting tale of revenge, blackmail, murder, and shifting loyalties that keep the characters just one step ahead of death.
