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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
Sales Rank: 2535
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
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Rating:  - Not one of Furst's best
While I enjoyed "The Spies of Warsaw", I don't believe it is as good as the two other Furst novels I have read:"Dark Star" and "Kingdom of Shadows".Once again the hero is a man of action, courage and steely character, when he needs to be.At the same time he is reflective, and very human.Once again I learned some history:the French general staff was divided, with one faction very aware of the threat of a German tank attack through the Ardennes forest; this faction included then Colonel Charles ... Read More
Rating: - A Great Read
Alan Furst's "The Spies of Warsaw" lacks some of the depth and complexity of his early work, but I still enjoyed it.I think I could read anything he wrote--a phone book, a computer instruction manual, a life insurance policy--and appreciate it for Furst's intelligence, his impressionistic prose, and his evocation of atmosphere. He is simply a wonderful writer.
Rating:  - My first but not last Furst
The Spies of Warsaw is a wonderful and entertaining read. It hooked me very quickly, and I finished it in nothing flat. Alan Furst is a craftsman of the highest order. I've been analyzing novels rather seriously for almost two decades and this one is constructed as well as any I've read.
I'm not a great fan of spy stories as they're usually full of tricks to fool the reader or far too convoluted for my taste. As you can tell, I don't indulge in solving crossword puzzles. But Furst creates ... Read More
Rating: - Outstanding historical fiction
This is the first Furst novel I've read, and boy was I impressed.I had all the symptoms of being hooked on a good book- staying up past my bedtime, skipping ahead for a sneak peek, etc.Jean-Francois is not a perfect man by any means but makes a compelling hero, struggling against the conventional wisdom that holds that Germany won't dare attack France.The coming Armageddon looms over the novel like a shadow.Furst does such a great job of describing ordinary scenes; I was particularly struck by one ... Read More
Rating: - Not Furst's best work, but readable
The Spies of Warsaw is set in pre-war Poland. The main plot is focused on procuring German engineering schematics for tanks, and ultimately, getting an agent inside the German intelligence machine.
Others have elaborated on the plot, so I'm going to focus on why I think this is one of Furst's weaker efforts. First, the good: The prose, as always, is crisp and has an excellent attention to detail. Furst is a master of capturing the subtitles in both dialogue and details that put him far ahead ... Read More
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