7th Edition

Magdalena Ostoja-Oleńska

BIO

A philologist and psychologist by education, and a secret service officer by profession.

A graduate of the Wajda School, where she developed the thriller The Hunter about a 39-year-old secret service officer who, finding herself at the epicenter of an intelligence war and facing an impossible love, asks herself whether she has made the right choices in life.

SYNOPSIS

A Russian spy is operating in the Polish Embassy in Kuwait. To expose him, Polish intelligence provides the Russians with a fictitious list of its own agents in the Middle East. When the operation begins to fall apart, the Russians kidnap Lara, a Polish code clerk. Former friends face off in an intelligence game. The lawyer, who always adhered to procedure to a fault, is now a Polish intelligence officer. Karol is a Polish diplomat and a Russian spy. Their love for Lara once drove them apart. Now they form a fragile alliance to save her, risking everything—their careers, their freedom, and their lives.