Mademoiselle Bambu is Pierre Mac Orlan's take on the spy novel, written and expanded between 1932 and 1966.

Set in Hamburg, London, Palermo, Brest and other ports of call in the anxious Europe of the 1920s and 1930s, Mademoiselle Bambu tells the tales of three secret agents: the melancholic adventurer and accidental spy, Captain Hartmann; his enigmatic mistress from Naples (and a double agent for the Germans), Signorina Bambu; and the sinister Pere Barbancon, who retires from his life of espionage and murder to eke out his troubled days in an aptly...