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Spies of Warsaw A Novel

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ISBN-10: 0812977378

ISBN-13: 9780812977370

Edition: 2008

Authors: Alan Furst

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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 workers' bar in the city's factory district, he will meet with the military attache from the French embassy. Information will be exchanged for money. So beginsThe Spies of Warsaw,the brilliant new novel by Alan Furst, lauded byThe New York Timesas "America's preeminent spy novelist." 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 attache, Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier, a decorated hero of the 1914 war, is drawn into a…    
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Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/9/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.30" wide x 8.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English

Furst received a B.A. from Oberlin College in 1962 and an M.A. from Penn State in 1967. Before becoming a full-time novelist, Furst worked in advertising and wrote magazine articles, most notably for Esquire, and as a columnist for the International Herald Tribune His early novels (1976-1983) achieved limited success. However, the 1988 publication of Night Soldiers inspired by a 1984 trip to Eastern Europe on assignment for Esquire revitalized his career. It was the first of his highly original novels about espionage in Europe before and during the Second World War. Born in New York on February 20, 1941, he lived for long periods in France, especially Paris where he was awarded a Fulbright…