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 begins THE SPIES OF WARSAW, with war coming to Europe, and French and German operatives 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 in to 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, amidst an extraordinary cast of venal and dangerous characters - Colonel Anton Vyborg of Polish military intelligence, last seen in Furst''s THE POLISH OFFICER; the mysterious and sophisticated Doctor Lapp, senior German Abwehr officer in Warsaw; Malka and Viktor Rozen, at work for the Russian secret service; and Mercier''s 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.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Phoenix (Orion)
ISBN: 9780753825648
Idioma: Inglés
Número de páginas: 352
Tiempo de lectura:
7h 15m
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 01/06/2009
Año de edición: 2009
Plaza de edición: Uk
Alto: 20.0 cm
Ancho: 13.0 cm
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Escrito por Alan Furst
Alan Furst nació y creció en Manhattan, Nueva York. Ha vivido largas temporadas en Francia. Como periodista ha viajado por Europa del Este y Rusia y ha sido colaborador habitual de Esquire y The International Herald Tribune. Entre sus novelas históricas de espionaje destacan: Night Soldiers (1988), The World at Night (1996), Red Gold (1999), El oficial polaco (1995; Seix Barral, 2007), Un oscuro viaje (2004; Seix Barral, 2008) y El corresponsal (Seix Barral, 2006). Su obra tiene una crítica magnífica, y ha sido publicada con tremendo éxito en Estados Unidos y varios países de Europa.