The Spies of Warsaw: A Novel - Softcover

"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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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.