The Spies Of Warsaw - Hardcover

Furst, Alan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1400066026 ISBN 13: 9781400066025

Publisher: Random House Inc, 2008

Synopsis

In 1937 Warsaw, on the eve of World War II, intelligence operatives on both sides of the forthcoming struggle wage their own espionage battle in a world of betrayal, intrigue, and abduction, including Colonel Jean-François Mercier, a decorated hero drawn into a passionate love affair with a Parisian woman of Polish heritage, a lawyer for the League of Nations. 75,000 first printing.

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Review:

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
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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
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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""

"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

Book Description:

'In the world of espionage thrillers, Alan Furst is in a class of his own' William Boyd

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1400066026
• ISBN 13: 9781400066025
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 266