To the Poles, of course, anxiety was nothing new. For more than a hundred years prior to World War I — the time of "the Partition" — their beloved land had been a political football. Yet "with the ...

Alan FURST writes books the way Frederic Chopin composed music; in bulk, with an apparent ease that belies great craftsmanship. Like Chopin, Furst has a deft ability to use the smallest changes in ...

Furst (The Foreign Correspondent) solidifies his status as a master of historical spy fiction with this compelling thriller set in 1937 Poland. Col. Jean-François Mercier, a military attaché at the ...

Alan Furst. Random House. 266 pages. $25. Warsaw, Poland, in 1937 is a nest of espionage. The city is infested with secret agents: German spies, Soviet spies, Polish spies and French spies. This is ...