An Autumn evening in 1937. A German engineer arrives at the Warsaw railway stati
on. 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 Fr
ench 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, th
e new military attache, Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier, a decorated hero of the 1
914 war, is drawn in to a world of abduction, betrayal and intrigue in the diplo
matic salons and back alleys of Warsaw.
At the same time, the handsome aristo
crat finds himself in a passionate love affair with a Parisian woman of Polish h
eritage, a lawyer for the League of Nations. Colonel Mercier must work in the sh
adows, amidst an extraordinary cast of venal and dangerous characters - Colonel
Anton Vyborg of Polish military intelligence, last seen in Furst's THE POLISH OF
FICER; the mysterious and sophisticated Doctor Lapp, senior German Abwehr office
r 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 counterintell
igence. And there are many more, some known to Mercier as spies, some never to b
e revealed.
