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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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Editorial Review:
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:  - One of Furst's best.
In his return to Warsaw, Alan Furst penned a work that, to me, reads more like The Polish Officer than any of his other works. The craft and protocols of the spy game, the rift in thinking (and arrogance) in the French general staff, the terrible innovations of Guderian.......... all mesh in a story that has room for a nicely choreographed romance. The only bone I have to pick is that perhaps too many of the characters somehow survive the tender mercies of pre-war Poland espionage, the Soviet purges, ... Read More
Rating:  - The Editor is Sleeping?
I'm nuts about the work of Mr. Furst. But . . . I gave up reading this one on Page 165. His evocation of life at the time is not up to his usual, his characters aren't as interesting, his sentences aren't crafted as well as usual, and the plot, well, we don't always read him for plot. I've read most of his books more than once, but couldn't even finish this one. Either the editor was sleeping, or Mr. Furst feels he's now above the recommendations of editors, or it's an alimony novel, or something, but ... Read More
Rating: - Furst is first!!!
Furst has done it again. His series of thrillers based on the events in Europe, Poland, the Balkans and the USSR leading up to and including World War II are must-reads in my opinion. I have read them all to date and each one offers a new perspective on this conflict. He examines the moral complexities of living in that horrific period of our history through the eyes of participants with whom we can identify, people who manage to make morally appropriate decisions under the worst of circumstances. Furst ... Read More
Rating:  - Not as gripping as Furst's earlier works
Alan Furst's latest,"The Spies of Warsaw", displays the same telling detail of people on the street that clarifies the plot and absorbs the reader into his complex espionage tales of pre-WW2 Europe. But alas, it is getting a little formulaic, and almost predictable which was never an earlier problem with his genre. Perhaps he has written it too soon, too quickly following his previous great successes. In "Spies of Warsaw" the aristocratic French spymaster beds the aristocratic lady of intrigue in Warsaw. ... Read More
Rating: - Furst at the Top of His Form
Alan Furst and Charles McCarry are the two best spy novelists writing today. Neither of them write books with an excess of action, yet both write gripping page turners, capable of creating suspense and menace by virtue of something as commonplace as a late train. They also write books which are more than just pop fiction. Both of them have heroes who are not the best athletes or the smartest guys or the best equipped; what makes their protagonists special is their character.
Alan Furst's heroes ... Read More
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