Game of Spies

Spies, bed-hopping, treachery and executions – this story of espionage in wartime Bordeaux is told for the first time.



Game of Spies uncovers a lethal spy triangle at work during the Second World War. The story centres on three men – on British, one French and one German – and the duels they fought out in an atmosphere of collaboration, betrayal and assassination, in which comrades sold fellow comrades, Allied agents and downed pilots to the Germans, as casually as they would a bottle of wine.


In this thrilling history of how ordinary, untrained people in occupied Europe faced the great questions of life, death and survival, Paddy Ashdown tells a fast-paced tale of SOE, betrayal and bloodshed in the city labelled ‘la plus belle collaboratrice’ in the whole of France.

Spioni, salturi, tradari si executii - aceasta poveste despre spionaj in timpul razboiului din Bordeaux este spusa pentru prima data. Jocul spionilor descopera un triunghi letal de spionaj la locul de munca in timpul celui de-al doilea razboi mondial. Povestea se concentreaza pe trei barbati - pe britanici, unul francez si unul german - si duelurile pe care le-au luptat intr-o atmosfera de colaborare, tradare si asasinat, in care tovarasii au vandut colegilor, agentii aliati si au daramat pilotilor germanilor, ca pe o intamplare In aceasta istorie palpitanta a modului in care oamenii obisnuiti si neinstruiti din Europa ocupata s-au confruntat cu marile intrebari despre viata, moarte si supravietuire, Paddy Ashdown spune o poveste rapida despre SOE, tradare si varsare de sange in orasul etichetat „la plus belle collaboratrice” in toata Franta.