A spy novel inspired by the stories of special agents of communist Poland who stole other people’s identities, building false relationships and their intelligence careers upon them.
Hans arrives in Strasbourg at the turn of the 1970s and 1980s and enters the life of the Steiner family as their son, found again after thirty years. His story sounds convincing: right after the war he was given up for adoption in Poland and only recently learned the truth about himself.
Thanks to his uncle’s patronage, Hans finds a job at the European Parliament, falls in love and builds a comfortable new life in the “rotten” West. The drab, oppressive People’s Republic of Poland seems no more than a distant memory.
But it is precisely there, and at the very same time, that a certain Jan Bitner from Sopot learns that he was adopted as a child, and that his biological parents were a Soviet officer and a German woman who was expelled from Poland after the war. From that moment on, Jan tries at all costs to unravel the mystery of his origins.
The parallel lives of Hans and Jan begin to converge as the former plays a dangerous intelligence game, while the latter, in uncovering his identity, becomes a mortal threat not only to his “double”, but also to himself.
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