Spies of the Balkans

"Balkan Greece -- the city of Salonika, 1940. The Greek army has blocked Mussolini's invasion, pushing his divisions back to Albania -- the first defeat suffered by the Nazis. But Adolf Hitler cannot tolerate such freedom; the invasion is coming. At the center of this drama is Costa Zannis, a senior police official handling special "political" cases. As war approaches, the spies begin to circle. Soon Zannis is in the game, securing an escape route -- from Berlin to Salonika, and then to a tenuous safety in Turkey, a route protected by German lawyers, Balkan detectives, and Hungarian gangsters"--Page 4 of cover.