The Spies of Warsaw
A new thriller from "the greatest living writer of espionage fiction"-- Houston ChronicleAutumn 1937: 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...
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A new thriller from "the greatest living writer of espionage fiction"-- Houston ChronicleAutumn 1937: 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-François 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...
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780812977370 (0812977378)
ASIN: 812977378
Publish date: June 9th 2009
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
History,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Mystery,
War,
Spy Thriller,
Espionage,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
World War II,
Suspense,
Poland
Series: Night Soldiers (#10)
[b:The Spies of Warsaw|2294328|The Spies of Warsaw (Night Soldiers, #10)|Alan Furst|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1320510011s/2294328.jpg|2300636] is an encapsulation of the subtle and dark arts of espionage in interwar Europe. An art, which, through the passage of centuries, had been enhanced with ...
This book does a good job of describing the intrigue and danger of the world of spies in Warsaw shortly before the beginning of World War II. The reader of today knows what's about to happen, but the characters in the book are not so blessed. The characters in the book are pretty sure that war is ...
Almost 4 stars. This is a slow building spy novel, where an honest, courageous, brave and loyal man finds himself trying to do the right thing, trying to fight the blindness of the people above him. This is about only seeing what you want to see even when faced with the truth. Lt-Colonel Jean-Franço...
Great spy novel. The last half had me on the edge of my seat. But the really great thing about Alan Furst is that his writing is so good that it is invisible so the only thing I was thinking about was if he or one of the other spies was going to be caught.
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