num_pages: 266
description: 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 attache from the French embassy. Information will be exchanged for money. So begins The Spies of Warsaw the new novel by Alan Furst.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 attache 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.
language: English
title: The Spies of Warsaw
publisher: Random House