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Alan Furst (Author)
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Release Date: Jun 9 2009
NOW A MINISERIES ON BBC AMERICA STARRING DAVID TENNANT

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, in Warsaw, 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 the city. 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. Risking his life, Colonel Mercier must work in the shadows, amid an extraordinary cast of venal characters, some known to Mercier as spies, some never to be revealed.

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Starred Review. Furst (The Foreign Correspondent) solidifies his status as a master of historical spy fiction with this compelling thriller set in 1937 Poland. Col. Jean-François Mercier, a military attaché at the French embassy in Warsaw who runs a network of spies, plays a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with his German adversaries. When one of Mercier's main agents, Edvard Uhl, an engineer at a large Düsseldorf arms manufacturer who's been a valuable source on the Nazis' new weapons, becomes concerned that the Gestapo is on to him, Mercier initially dismisses Uhl's fears. Mercier soon realizes that the risk to his spy is genuine, and he's forced to scramble to save Uhl's life. The colonel himself later takes to the field when he hears reports that the German army is conducting maneuvers in forested terrain. Even readers familiar with the Germans' attack through the Ardennes in 1940 will find the plot suspenseful. As ever, Furst excels at creating plausible characters and in conveying the mostly tedious routines of real espionage. Author tour. (June)
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“Entertaining from first page to last . . . [Alan] Furst is that rarity, a writer of popular fiction who is also a serious novelist.”—Washington Post Book World

“Teeming with intrigue . . . Furst’s novels of World War II Europe are not just atmospheric. They’re transporting.”—Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“Wildly atmospheric . . . Furst’s novels combines the research habits of a top-shelf historical novelist with a taste for psychic warfare that recalls the work of British writers like W. Somerset Maugham . . . , Anthony Powell . . . , and Evelyn Waugh.”—Men’s Vogue

“This engaging historical fiction should be read by anyone who loves a compelling story well told.”—Houston Chronicle


“A rare thing: an engrossing, deeply emotional, thinking person’s love story.”— San Francisco Chronicle
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5.0 out of 5 stars Good spy story April 9 2009
By Emmaursula
Format:Hardcover
I read this book a few months ago and was surprised to find negative reviews here. It's a very good book; interesting characters, good plot, and a good spy story. Check out the reviews at the UK site of Amazon to get a more valid perspective on this book.
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3.0 out of 5 stars The Coming Storm of World War II from a French Spy's Perspective Aug 4 2008
By Donald Mitchell #1 HALL OF FAME TOP 10 REVIEWER
Format:Hardcover
Prior to World War II, most people either thought that Hitler and his generals were intent on world domination based on using any tool available or that these were reasonable people who could be persuaded to go elsewhere if you cut a deal with them. In between those views were the French, who thought that their Maginot Line could stop the Germans at the border in any future European war. Those who bet that Hitler and his generals were serious were right.

This book examines those perspectives from the vantage point of the Western spies operating in Warsaw in 1937 and 1938. The fictional Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier steals enough secrets to come to the right conclusion about what France faces. In the process, you learn a lot about spy tradecraft in that era and how the various countries oriented to one another.

The book has an oddly cold tone, as though this story was written in an attempt to keep out emotion, patriotism, and strong feelings of any kind. As a result, the plot, although interesting, failed to engage me into the story. I felt like I was reading a light, nonfiction magazine article about pre-World War II espionage instead.

For a reading public that likes to exalt the importance and impact of espionage, this story is a sort of anti-story . . . suggesting that perhaps espionage was then more a game than serious business.

To me, the best parts of the book were those that attempted to capture tradecraft in that era. Those were well done.

Unlike many spy stories where the ending is up in the air . . . due to an optional, fictitious result, The Spies of Warsaw ends up being a bit too predictable in leading up to the well-known events of 1939 and 1940.
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6 of 9 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Not his best. Maybe his worst. July 14 2008
By Lyn Alexander TOP 500 REVIEWER
Format:Hardcover
I write historical novels and I know what it takes. I've read several of Furst's novels: the Polish Officer was superb; evocative of the times, lucid, detailed, understated. Dark Star was less effective. The Foreign Correspondent seemed to be somewhat scattered in focus. Now we come to The Spies of Warsaw, and what I detect here is a fine author desperately trying to satisfy the demands of his publisher and of his readers to keep the stories coming. I found the story line fractured, a bunch of bits and pieces focussed by the use of dates at the beginning of each section. The characters never came to life for me, the love story was a brief, superficial brush with suggestion, and the end of the book was a statement of history written as if the author was just plain tired of the whole effort. I did not enjoy The Spies of Warsaw. To give the author the respect he deserves I finished the book. It was boring.
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