My Secret Service: Vienna, Sophia, Constantinople, Nish, Belgrade, Asia Minor, etc.

In the tumult of the early twentieth‑century war, a young, multilingual journalist finds himself drawn into a shadowy game of intelligence gathering. Leveraging his fluency in English, German, French and Flemish, he adopts a series of false trades—first a steel‑driller at the Krupp factories, then a chocolate salesman, and finally a correspondent for a newspaper—to slip behind enemy lines. Each disguise places him on a railway or river route, from the heart of industrial Germany to the bustling bazaars of Constantinople.

His narrated journeys read like a high‑stakes sport, where the slightest slip can mean death at the hands of secret service officers. Along the way he meets soldiers, spies, and diplomats, collecting maps, tickets, and whispered orders that expose the inner workings of the German war machine. The account balances vivid on‑the‑ground observations with the tension of narrowly avoided capture, offering listeners a front‑row seat to a rare, self‑reported spy adventure.

The storyteller’s candid voice, tinged with humor and honest fear, invites the audience to experience the precarious balance between curiosity and caution that defined his wartime odyssey.