Location(s): Warsaw
Genre(s): Thriller
Era(s): 1937
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 )
Novel set in Warsaw (“..a really polished piece of writing..”)
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...
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