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 citys 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 & French & German operatives locked in a life-&-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 & intrigue in the diplomatic salons & 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 & dangerous characters
- Colonel Anton Vyborg of Polish military intelligence last seen in Fursts THE POLISH OFFICER; the mysterious & sophisticated Doctor Lapp senior German Abwehr officer in Warsaw; Malka & Viktor Rozen at work for the Russian secret service; & Merciers brutal & vindictive opponent Major August Voss of SS counterintelligence. & there are many more some known to Mercier as spies some never to be revealed.