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
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