The spies of Warsaw: a novel

✍ Scribed by Alan Furst

• Book ID: 100106211
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 226 KB
• Edition: 1st ed
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1588367169

✦ Synopsis

SOON TO BE A MINISERIES ON BBC AMERICA

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...