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Being a spy in 1938 is no picnic. Max Fridman, clearly a Jewish name meaning 'man of peace', becomes 'active' again with the necessary blackmail. After all, one is never completely out of the 'firm'. More

MAX FRIDMAN (Vittorio Giardino) 1982-2024

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Being a spy in 1938 is no picnic. Max Fridman, clearly a Jewish name meaning 'man of peace', becomes 'active' again with the necessary blackmail. After all, one is never completely out of the 'firm'.

All members of the French external military intelligence service in Budapest are murdered. Double agents must be exposed. Max has his work cut out for him, although he himself has a double agenda. Nazism with Hitler in Germany is very successful. The 'Abwehr' inspires the necessary fear and Austria is conquered, the so-called Anschluss. Max's daughter (Esther; 10 y) innocently reads Tintin's The Blue Lotus while an anti-Jewish pogrom takes place: Kristallnacht from 9 to 10 November 1938.

Max Fridman is very successful with women. However, he is far from a James Bond. The pipe-smoking Jewish Frenchman is small in stature - people call him Tom Thumb - and has a red beard. He goes in search of a friend - Major Guido Treves - and thus becomes involved in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Lasting traumas will be his lot. He meets more enemies than he likes, in the midst of intrigues and conspiracies. Fortunately, there is also the sympathetic Belgian journalist of Echo De Belgium, Claire Blon.

We know Vittorio Giardino (1946) from Sam Pezzo, Little Ego and Jonas Fink. Until he was thirty, he worked in the computer industry: engineer of electronic calculators. It was not until 1982 that the Italian magazine Orient-Express published his stories and he left for good. We are eagerly awaiting the sixth story by Max Fridman, the man who can walk back and forth between the bullets.

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Rhapsodie Hongroise (1982)