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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Thorndike Pr
Publication date
July 1, 2008
Pages
439
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
Large print
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781410408037
ISBN-10
1410408035
Dimensions
1 by 5.75 by 8.75 in.
Weight
1.26 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$33.95
Other format details
large print
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§As reported by publisher
Amazon.com says people who bought this book also bought:
A Hero of France | The Polish Officer | Blood of Victory | Mission To Paris | Spies of the Balkans | The Polish Officer | Kingdom of Shadows | Dark Voyage | The Foreign Correspondent
A Hero of France | The Polish Officer | Blood of Victory | Mission To Paris | Spies of the Balkans | The Polish Officer | Kingdom of Shadows | Dark Voyage | The Foreign Correspondent
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product 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 workersâ bar in the cityâs factory district, he will meet with the military attaché from the French embassy. Information will be exchanged for money. So begins The Spies of Warsaw, the brilliant new novel by Alan Furst, lauded by The New York Times as âAmericaâs preeminent spy novelist.â
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 attaché, 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 charactersâColonel 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 Mercierâs 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 Houston Chronicle has described Furst as âthe greatest living writer of espionage fiction.â The Spies of Warsaw is his finest novel to dateâthe history precise, the writing evocative and powerful, more a novel about spies than a spy novel, exciting, atmospheric, erotic, and impossible to put down.
âAs close to heaven as popular fiction can get.â
âLos Angeles Times, about The Foreign Correspondent
âWhat gleams on the surface in Furstâs books is his vivid, precise evocation of mood, time, place, a letter-perfect re-creation of the quotidian details of World War II Europe that wraps around us like the rich fug of a wartime railway station.â
âTime
âA rich, deeply moving novel of suspense that is equal parts espionage thriller, European history and love story.â
âHerbert Mitgang, The New York Times, about Dark Star
âSome books you read. Others you live. They seep into your dreams and haunt your waking hours until eventually they seem the stuff of memory and experience. Such are the novels of Alan Furst, who uses the shadowy world of espionage to illuminate history and politics with immediacy.â
âNancy Pate, Orlando Sentinel
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 attaché, 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 charactersâColonel 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 Mercierâs 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 Houston Chronicle has described Furst as âthe greatest living writer of espionage fiction.â The Spies of Warsaw is his finest novel to dateâthe history precise, the writing evocative and powerful, more a novel about spies than a spy novel, exciting, atmospheric, erotic, and impossible to put down.
âAs close to heaven as popular fiction can get.â
âLos Angeles Times, about The Foreign Correspondent
âWhat gleams on the surface in Furstâs books is his vivid, precise evocation of mood, time, place, a letter-perfect re-creation of the quotidian details of World War II Europe that wraps around us like the rich fug of a wartime railway station.â
âTime
âA rich, deeply moving novel of suspense that is equal parts espionage thriller, European history and love story.â
âHerbert Mitgang, The New York Times, about Dark Star
âSome books you read. Others you live. They seep into your dreams and haunt your waking hours until eventually they seem the stuff of memory and experience. Such are the novels of Alan Furst, who uses the shadowy world of espionage to illuminate history and politics with immediacy.â
âNancy Pate, Orlando Sentinel
Editions
Hardcover
The price comparison is for this edition
With Alan Furst |
Large print edition from Thorndike Pr (July 1, 2008)
9781410408037 | details & prices | 439 pages | 5.75 × 8.75 × 1.00 in. | 1.26 lbs | List price $33.95
About: An autumn evening in 1937.
About: An autumn evening in 1937.
from Random House Inc (June 3, 2008)
9781400066025 | details & prices | 266 pages | 6.50 × 9.75 × 1.25 in. | 1.10 lbs | List price $25.00
Paperback
With Alan Furst |
Reprint edition from Random House Inc (June 9, 2009)
9780812977370 | details & prices | 266 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.45 lbs | List price $16.00
CD/Spoken Word
With Daniel Gerroll (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from Simon & Schuster (June 3, 2008)
9780743533874 | details & prices | 5.00 × 6.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.60 lbs | List price $39.95
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