The Spies of Warsaw

The Spies of Warsaw
by Alan Furst

The Spies of Warsaw
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Author: Alan Furst
Reader: Daniel Gerroll
Edition: Music CD
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
Published: 2008-06-03
ISBN: 0743533879
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

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Book Review: Not as gripping as Furst's earlier works
Summary: 4 Stars

Alan Furst's latest,"The Spies of Warsaw", displays the same telling detail of people on the street that clarifies the plot and absorbs the reader into his complex espionage tales of pre-WW2 Europe. But alas, it is getting a little formulaic, and almost predictable which was never an earlier problem with his genre. Perhaps he has written it too soon, too quickly following his previous great successes. In "Spies of Warsaw" the aristocratic French spymaster beds the aristocratic lady of intrigue in Warsaw. Et alors? His field adventures measuring and documenting the Germans' preparations to run their tanks through the Ardennes into France,
intelligence that the hidebound French high command disastrously ignores, belabor the obvious. Furst seems to be writing under a tight deadline, and producing more of a thinner, movie script outline than his usual dense, compelling narrative. For those unfamiliar with Furst's works, though, read it for the coloration it provides - and then go read his earlier stuff.

Summary of The Spies of Warsaw

A new thriller from "the greatest living writer of espionage fiction"

-- Houston Chronicle

Autumn 1937: 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 attach?, Colonel Jean-Fran?ois 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.

The Spies of Warsaw is Furst's finest novel to date -- exciting, atmospheric, erotic, and impossible to put down.

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