Robert Michniewicz: “Agent z Dubaju” (The Dubai Agent, 2026)

The work

According to the publisher, “Agent z Dubaju” (Czarna Owca, October 2026) is a novel about Aleks Niwiński, a Polish intelligence officer sent to Dubai to make contact with an Iranian spy. The mission is complicated by an affair with a French intelligence agent, and a series of bloody attacks in Riyadh, Houston and Warsaw is connected with events in Saudi Arabia.¹

Niwiński has to establish whether the attacks are revenge by Russian or Iranian intelligence, or retaliation by a Shia terrorist cell. The publisher lists this book separately, outside the series, alongside “Agent z Rijadu”.^1,2

The real background

The plot draws on real tensions in the region. In March 2023, in Beijing, Saudi Arabia and Iran agreed to resume diplomatic relations and reopen their embassies within two months; the joint statement was also signed by China.³

According to the publisher, Michniewicz served in Polish intelligence for 23 years, 11 of them abroad, worked in the Middle East, the Americas and Europe, and retired in 2006 with the rank of lieutenant colonel. His service in the Foreign Intelligence Agency is confirmed by his public appearances (see the card Robert Michniewicz).^2,4

What is accurate

Under the statute, the Foreign Intelligence Agency, in which the protagonist serves, operates primarily abroad; its tasks include identifying international terrorism (Article 6). The institutional background is therefore consistent with the AW’s statutory remit.^5,6

According to media and secondary accounts · not confirmed by official sourcesIn an interview with Histmag.org (2024), the author said that in his novels he moves within realities he knows well, but does not reveal details that could endanger the sources he worked with.⁷

What is invented

The attacks in Riyadh, Houston and Warsaw, the Dubai mission and the characters are fiction; we found no source linking them to real events. The publisher’s description speaks of realistic procedures, but does not claim that the plot reconstructs specific operations.¹

Paweł Kaczyński, who studied spy novels written in the Polish People’s Republic by former officers, points out that claimed authenticity was sometimes a literary device and was not always backed by fact – a remark about the genre, not about this author.⁸