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The Spies of Warsaw |  | Author: Alan Furst
Publisher: Random House Inc (P)
Category: Book
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Rating:  7 reviews
Media: Paperback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 0812977378
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780812977370
ASIN: 0812977378
Publication Date: June 2, 2009 (In 146 Days)
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 A splendid book January 3, 2009
Bluebell (UK)
This is a new writer for me, but to judge by this book, one I shall seek out in the future. Set around the beginning of the Second World War it has some of the flavour of John Le Carre novels with clandestine meetings, possible double-agents and a feeling of tension over who are the goodies and who the baddies. The uncertainty keeps one reading to the very end of the book. I found this writer easier to follow than the complexities of Le Carre's novels. Furst is very adept at painting word pictures of his characters which helped me imagine them and so clearly differentiate among them. It's not all spies though, there is some relief from their murky world in the interludes about the affair between the 'hero' and his new love.
travel back in time November 1, 2008
Mr. E. B. Brodie (europe)
How lucky I was to find this writer. Under statement, atmosphere, intrigue and people you can believe existed. All his books are at least good with some being brilliant. I wish they were a thousand pages long. If he continues in this form, let's hope he lives to a great age.
 Alan Furst back in form September 13, 2008
Kittycat (UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was somewhat disappointed with Furst's last book, "The Foreign Correspondent," but this book is more like his former pre-WWII spy novels. The year is 1937, the prospect of another war is looming, and Col. Mercier, a French military attache based in Warsaw, is given the task to discover how, should war break out, the Germans will attack France. Again we meet a cast of spies, civil servants and military officers, many of them world-weary and believing that war is inevitable. As in all his other novels, Furst includes a little romance, the Brasserie Heininger with its bullet-shattered mirror (that happens in his book Night Soldiers), the smoky night clubs, the rustic worker's bars. It's Furst's evocation of this era, the terse conversations, the atmosphere, which makes his books so good.
I didn't give it five stars as I still prefer his earlier novels, like Night Soldiers or The Polish Officer. These books were much longer, much meatier. I can't get enough of Alan Furst! If you are interested in espionage novels, or novels about WWII, Furst is definitely one to read.
Consistently good August 17, 2008
P. McAllister (Britain)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is typical Furst. Consistently in his books, the execution of relatively trivial (given our hindsight about the overwhelming events to come) espionage operations against Nazi Germany forms the basis of the plot. It is similar in style and pace to his earlier books which blend elements of travelogue, thriller, history lesson and romance to provide an extremely readable and interesting narrative. Essentially, if you enjoyed Furst earlier novels, then you should enjoy this as well.
 The Coming Storm of World War II from a French Spy's Perspective August 5, 2008
Donald Mitchell (Boston)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Prior to World War II, most people either thought that Hitler and his generals were intent on world domination based on using any tool available or that these were reasonable people who could be persuaded to go elsewhere if you cut a deal with them. In between those views were the French, who thought that their Maginot Line could stop the Germans at the border in any future European war. Those who bet that Hitler and his generals were serious were right.
This book examines those perspectives from the vantage point of the Western spies operating in Warsaw in 1937 and 1938. The fictional Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier steals enough secrets to come to the right conclusion about what France faces. In the process, you learn a lot about spy tradecraft in that era and how the various countries oriented to one another.
The book has an oddly cold tone, as though this story was written in an attempt to keep out emotion, patriotism, and strong feelings of any kind. As a result, the plot, although interesting, failed to engage me into the story. I felt like I was reading a light, nonfiction magazine article about pre-World War II espionage instead.
For a reading public that likes to exalt the importance and impact of espionage, this story is a sort of anti-story . . . suggesting that perhaps espionage was then more a game than serious business.
To me, the best parts of the book were those that attempted to capture tradecraft in that era. Those were well done.
Unlike many spy stories where the ending is up in the air . . . due to an optional, fictitious result, The Spies of Warsaw ends up being a bit too predictable in leading up to the well-known events of 1939 and 1940.
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