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Spy thriller looks behind the curtain
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Dayton Daily News
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June 29, 2008
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Warsaw, Poland, in 1937 is a wasp's nest of espionage. The city
is infested with secret agents: German spies, Soviet spies, Polish
spies and French spies.
The German war machine is gearing up to indulge Adolph Hitler's
fantasy of dominating Europe. Joseph Stalin is busy purging enemies
in his Soviet show trials. The French are fooling themselves,
complacent in the delusion that they can somehow repel a German
attack.
This is the setting for "The Spies of Warsaw," the latest spy
thriller from that master of the historical espionage genre, Alan
Furst. Col. Jean-Francois Mercier is the military attache serving at
the French embassy in Warsaw. He is also spymaster for a network of
spies that ...
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