SLOMCZYŃSKI MACIEJ Lieutenant Kent's Task (1947)

Lodz 1947, Scientific Bookstore, p.224, form. 20.5 x 15cm. Hardcover bookbinding. Abrasions of the edges of the binding. Original front cover with wrapper. Wrapper rubbed at edges, last page torn.

The author's second novel "We land on June 6" is devoted to the underground struggle of Allied intelligence against the enemy. The place of action is North Africa, where, against the background of the battle for the Suez Canal, the love of two people - an officer of the "Intelligence Service" and a beautiful Italian woman - develops." Maciej Slomczynski (1920-1988) made his debut with poems printed in 1946 in the pages of the Lodz magazine "Tydzień". In 1947 he returned to Poland permanently, and seven years later settled in Cracow. After the war, he was persecuted: subjected to surveillance as a probable English spy. To break contact he left for Gdansk. In the following years he repeatedly refused to cooperate. He became popular for his work as Joe Alex: he wrote film scripts, plays and television shows and broadcasts. Joe Alex's detective stories have been translated into 13 languages: Belarusian, Bulgarian, Czech, Lithuanian, Latvian, German, Russian, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Slovenian, Ukrainian and Hungarian.