The Polish Officer: A Novel by Alan Furst

Author:Alan Furst
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3, epub, pdf
Tags: C429, Fiction, General, Extratorrents, Kat
ISBN: 0753825562
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Published: 2001-10-09T05:00:00+00:00

The Funkabwehr—the signals intelligence unit of the Gestapo—maintained offices in the army barracks on the boulevard Suchet. They too had darkened rooms, and operators with headsets wandering among the nighttime frequencies.

“What’s this up at 49?” one of them said, making a note of the time, 9:42 P.M., in his log.

“They were there last night,” his colleague said.

They listened for thirty seconds. “Same one,” he continued. “Slow and steady—refuses to make a mistake, nothing bothers him.”

The first operator threw a switch that played the telegraphy through a speaker, listened a moment, then he picked up a telephone and dialed a single digit. A moment later, Sturmbannführer Grahnweis came through the door.

Grahnweis was a legend, and he didn’t mind that. He was enormously fat—the shape of a renaissance cherub grotesquely overblown—and moved with heavy dignity. He had been at dinner when the call came, a white damask napkin still tucked into the collar of his black Gestapo uniform, and a waiter followed him into the office carrying a plate of venison sausages and a half stein of beer. Grahnweis nodded to his operators and smiled benevolently. He forgave them the interrupted dinner.

Then he listened.

Perhaps he made a little more of it than necessary, but who was going to blame him for a touch of theater? As the numbers tapped out, in the foreground of the atmospheric sighs and crackles, Grahnweis tilted his head to one side and puckered his mouth, then, slowly, nodded in confirmation. Yes, yes. No question about it. The diagnosis is as you suspected, gentlemen. Herr Doktor Grahnweis will take the case.

“Be so good as to serve the dinner in my office,” he said to the waiter.

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