Article: Spy thriller looks behind the curtain

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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