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The Spies of Warsaw: A Novel
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781400066025
ISBN: 1400066026
Label: Random House
Manufacturer: Random House
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: June 03, 2008
Publisher: Random House
Release Date: June 03, 2008
Studio: Random House
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An autumn evening in 1937. A German engineer arrives at the Warsaw railway station. Tonight, he will be with his Polish mistress; tomorrow, at a workers’ bar in the city’s factory district, he will meet with the military attaché from the French embassy. Information will be exchanged for money. So begins The Spies of Warsaw, the brilliant new novel by Alan Furst, lauded by The New York Times as “America’s preeminent spy novelist.”War is coming to Europe. French and German intelligence operatives are locked in a life-and-death struggle on the espionage battlefield. At the French embassy, the new military attaché, Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier, a decorated hero of the 1914 war, is drawn into a world of abduction, betrayal, and intrigue in the diplomatic salons and back alleys of Warsaw. At the same time, the handsome aristocrat finds himself in a passionate love affair with a Parisian woman of Polish heritage, a lawyer for the League of Nations.Colonel Mercier must work in the shadows, amid an extraordinary cast of venal and dangerous characters–Colonel Anton Vyborg of Polish military intelligence; the mysterious and sophisticated Dr. Lapp, senior German Abwehr officer in Warsaw; Malka and Viktor Rozen, at work for the Russian secret service; and Mercier’s brutal and vindictive opponent, Major August Voss of SS counterintelligence. And there are many more, some known to Mercier as spies, some never to be revealed.The Houston Chronicle has described Furst as “the greatest living writer of espionage fiction.” The Spies of Warsaw is his finest novel to date–the history precise, the writing evocative and powerful, more a novel about spies than a spy novel, exciting, atmospheric, erotic, and impossible to put down.“As close to heaven as popular fiction can get.”
–Los Angeles Times, about The Foreign Correspondent“What gleams on the surface in Furst’s books is his vivid, precise evocation of mood, time, place, a letter-perfect re-creation of the quotidian details of World War II Europe that wraps around us like the rich fug of a wartime railway station.”
–Time“A rich, deeply moving novel of suspense that is equal parts espionage thriller, European history and love story.”
–Herbert Mitgang, The New York Times, about Dark Star“Some books you read. Others you live. They seep into your dreams and haunt your waking hours until eventually they seem the stuff of memory and experience. Such are the novels of Alan Furst, who uses the shadowy world of espionage to illuminate history and politics with immediacy.”
–Nancy Pate, Orlando Sentinel
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Men at Work
Consistent with Furst's recent works: great settings are created, atmosphere this reader could feel, characters with human qualities and failings, and villians that make me want to take a shower. Furst's use of language reminds me of LeCarre. Just wish his books lasted longer.
Rating:  - Great writing that disappoints
Alan Furst is a well-known writer of the literary espionage thriller and his newest installment, The Spies of Warsaw, is true to the genre. An anthropologist by training, Furst's attention to the detail of life and place of his characters pays off in unforgettable descriptions of the Easter European country, particularly its capital city in the years shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War. But the book is missing something, quite possibly a good plot, which, after all, is the heart of ... Read More
Rating: - Furst is first again
Alan Furst fans will not be disappointed, even tho a little shorter than some of his other books. He reads so much like a "film noir" from the 40s or 50s, that you expect to see Humphrey Bogart come around a street corner at any moment.
I highly recommend all of his books, "Night Soldiers" being my favorite.
Ray in Retirement, FL
Rating: - The Insecurity of Pre-War Europe
In "The Spies of Warsaw", Alan Furst's tenth novel about the pre-World War II period in various European countries, he effectively conveys the sense of forboding and insecurity that overlaid everyone's feelings. From the vantage point of hindsight you might question how he can maintain any suspense when we all already know the outcome of the German strategy to attack France through the Ardennes forest. But of course, he does so brilliantly by illustrating the almost impenetrable resistance at the French ... Read More
Rating: - Alan Furst's Magnificent New Addition
Alan Furst's new novel, The Spies of Warsaw, is a tightly controlled narrative of an approaching war that will be the worst in human history. Mercier, the protagonist, is a French military attache working in 1937 Warsaw. Mercier's real job is to collect data, from whatever source he can, on how the Germans will first attack France. Along the way, he comes into contact with fake countesses, defecting Russians, and turncoat Nazis. He also falls in love with a League of Nations lawyer--their dalliance is consummated ... Read More
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