The Spies of Warsaw

This book turned up on my GoodReads list a couple of weeks ago. What started as a snack turned into a meal and then into a banquet. I am now working on my seventh Furst book a la Kindle. If Le Carre approaches the point of departure where "spy thriller" become serious literatire, Furst easlily transce......more

ORIGINAL REVIEW ... An excellent spy story, set in Warsaw, Prague and other venues before the German invasion of Poland. ... SPOILER ALERT ... Perhaps the most intriguing aspect is the question of what was known to the French about German invasion plans ... and how that information was ignored. I am......more

There are a number of reasons why this mediocre spy book (I hesitate to call it a novel, as that implies something undeserved in the way of characterization, plot development, aesthetic sense, or relation to reality) over-irked me, but I’ll spare you all but the biggest: we have here a Warsaw of the......more

Alan Furst is hailed on his books as 'widely recognised as a master of the historical spy novel' and by the New York Times as 'America's pre-eminent spy novelist'. The pity is that he is none of these things. The filters obviously omit Brit contenders like John Le Carre, Frederick Forsyth, Ian Flemi......more

Warsaw, 1938. Colonel Jean-Francios Mercier is a celebrated war hero of the 1914 war. He is also the military representative from the French embassy who trades in secrets and information from Germans, Russians, and anyone else who can be trusted. But no one is to be trusted, not really. In this time......more