Hans has made a good life for himself in France, having escaped Communist Poland and reunited with the mother who was forced to abandon him as a child. But Hans is, in fact, a spy and an imposter whose plans crumble when the real son starts making waves while fighting with the Polish resistance back in his homeland.

Set along the Iron Curtain in the early 1970s, DOPPELGÄNGER: THE DOUBLE weaves a tale of intrigue that will draw together two men of different backgrounds during one of the most tense times of recent history. Hans ventures to the west under an assumed identity, masking his role as a spy gathering information in disguise. On the other side is Jan Bitner, a ship worker focusing on the liberation of Poland and searching for a lost mother. Slickly designed and with palpable psychological mystery throughout, DOPPELGÄNGER: THE DOUBLE unfolds like the most absorbing of espionage novels, evoking a history of national tensions intertwined with a complex story of identity. —C.F.