[2] It starred David Tennant as the protagonist Colonel Jean-François Mercier and Janet Montgomery as his love interest Anna Skarbek.
[3] As in other Alan Furst novels, the fictional Parisian restaurant Brasserie Heininger serves as one of the settings for dialogue.
[5] The two-part drama received some positive reviews in the UK, especially for the script and acting,[6] although The Guardian described it as "pallid as much of the washed-out photography".
[7] The Telegraph liked the series for many features: appropriateness for "intergenerational shared viewing, never... too visually brutal, and the playing of the minor characters... was convincingly understated".
[9] The New York Times found the series an "enjoyable, straightforward espionage tale without a lot of twists or extra layers" but deemed it "true to the original in story and in spirit",[5] though slow-moving,[10] and the Boston Globe thought it "a strangely bloodless affair".