Spies of Warsaw

Author(s): Alan Furst

Location(s): Warsaw

Genre(s): Thriller

Era(s): 1937

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Warsaw in the late 1930s,the looming menace of Hitler’s Germany on one side and Stalin’s Russia on the other. Colonel Mercier is a French military attache based in Warsaw, and is given the task to discover how, if war breaks out, the Germans will attack France.

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‘Alan Furst’s spy thriller is extraordinary for his mastery of period detail… enough twists along the way to satisfy even the most demanding reader’ (OBSERVER )

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Novel set in Warsaw (“..a really polished piece of writing..”)

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At the French embassy in 1937 Warsaw, the French military attaché Colonel Mercier is trying to deal with the problem of a somewhat feckless agent, Herr Edward Uhl. Soon, he is drawn into a world of intrigue and betrayal...