A spy novel from the early 195os, but taking place in the 1930s in the lead up to WWII. We follow an almost entirely stateless man–a Hungarian-born man with Yugoslavia passport that came to him through a brokered treaty in the wake of WWI and who finds himself in some trouble in France when his camera is confiscated by the police containing photos of armaments on the coastline of Nice. Because he is charged with espionage and because of his fragile existence in the country, […]