Colonel Mercier must work in the shadows, amid an extraordinary cast of venal and dangerous charactersβ Colonel Anton Vyborg of Polish military intelligence; the mysterious and sophisticated Dr. Lapp, senior German Abwehr officer in Warsaw; Malka and Viktor Rozen, at work for the Russian secret service; and Mercierβs 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.
The Houston Chronicle has described Furst as βthe greatest living writer of espionage fiction.β The Spies of Warsaw is his finest novel to dateβthe history precise, the writing evocative and powerful, more a novel about spies than a spy novel, exciting, atmospheric, erotic, and impossible to put down.
βAs close to heaven as popular fiction can get.β βLos Angeles Times, about The Foreign Correspondent
βWhat gleams on the surface in Furstβs books is his vivid, precise evocation of mood, time, place, a letter-perfect re- creation of the quotidian details of World War II Europe that wraps around us like the rich fug of a wartime railway station.β βTime
βA rich, deeply moving novel of suspense that is equal parts espionage thriller, European history and love story.β βHerbert Mitgang, The New York Times, about Dark Star
βSome books you read. Others you live. They seep into your dreams and haunt your waking hours until eventually they seem the stuff of memory and experience. Such are the novels of Alan Furst, who uses the shadowy world of espionage to illuminate history and politics with immediacy.β βNancy Pate, Orlando Sentinel
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