About this title: Set in Warsaw, Selsia, and Paris, Furst's stunning, action-packed new thriller combines espionage with deadly romance, all happening during the rearing threat of Hitler's gathering war against Europe.
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Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Date Published: 2009-06-09
ISBN-13:9780812977370ISBN:0812977378
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781410408037ISBN:1410408035
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Phoenix
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780753825648ISBN:0753825643
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781400066025ISBN:1400066026
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781400066025ISBN:1400066026
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780297855415ISBN:0297855417
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Random House Inc
Date Published: 2009-06-09
ISBN-13:9780812977370ISBN:0812977378
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Date Published: 2009
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"An old-school spy novel set on the eve of WW II - more Graham Greene and John LeCarre' than Ted Bell and Daniel Silva. There is more intrigue than flash-bang. In this atmospheric novel Alan Furst develops the pervasive mis-trust, the uncertain outcome, bureaucratic skepticism and just plain dumb luck that is the world of espionage. The plot has more threads than a shag carpet, some of them left hanging unfortunately. This is my first Furst novel (couldn't resist). So perhaps all will become clear as I read more of him."
"In his latest novel Alan Furst again examines the life and times of people caught up in the maelstrom of World War 2 in Europe. Furst has a unique talent for weaving a complex of characters and settings into the entire series of books he has written about the late 1930s and 1940s. Whether in Poland or Paris, Berlin or Budapest...his tales are so well crafted you will read them over and over again. Here his tale returns to the Poland we first met in the Polish Officer...."
"It is 1937 and Colonel Mercier is the newly arrived and not very enthusiastic military attaché at the French embassy in Warsaw. However following the exposure of one of his agents, a potentially career-ending event, Mercier is able to engineer a sequence of events that reveal the German plans for the invasion of France.
There are any number of reasons to like this novel - the well-constructed and suspenseful plot, the beautiful descriptions of Warsaw and other parts of Europe, and the diplomatic circuit, in the immediate pre-war period, interesting sub-plots that are well articulated with the main story, including a love-story involving the main character, the attractive nature of the main character, a number of other interesting and well-drawn characters. The background to the plot is the strategic planning by Germany and France in preparation for the inevitable attack by Germany, the theme of which is summed up in the following exchange:
'Do you know the Latin proverb Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur? Herr Hitler's favourite saying: The world wants to be deceived, therefore let it be deceived.'
This is a beautifully written novel, the first of Furst's that I have read. For anyone interested in Furst's work, there are two inteviews on the literary website identitytheory.com that are well worth reading."
"FURST, ALAN The Spies of Warsaw, 2008 read September 2008 This is the third or fourth Hurst wartime novel I have read and I already recognised some of the types of character. The hero is from an upper class French family, polite, restrained but languidly attractive to women, he overcomes his depression and uncertainties to be actively heroic, willing to give up his life in situations where he assesses the sacrifice is more important. The women are more vulnerable, dependent on men and not impacting on the wider society, though in this book they have jobs and make decisions about their lives, instead of the passive victims of men seen in the earlier novels. Mercier's cousin Albertine indeed takes the initiative in her relationship with him, from their early childhood To a foreigner, with no memories of the wartime, Mercier is admirable, but strange, and I read this book in the course of a day, from early morning to mid-afternoon, fully engaged with it and enjoying the writing. The novel is set in 1937 and it was interesting to find the German, Voss, in Warsaw working for German intelligence, and prefiguring his appearance in an earlier book, set in Berlin in the last days of the war."
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