he book is extremely well written, beautifully paced, suspenseful throughout and psychologically acute. In The Polish Officer, Furst presents his finest achievement yet: a subtle work of great quality and imaginative reach, written in some of the most delicate and understated prose it has been my pleasure to read in many a day.” -VINCENT BANVILLE, The Irish Times “ is a novel and a damned fine one at that. The Polish Officer stands on its own, an atmospheric, intelligent novel of intrigue that is also a rousing historical novel.” -NANCY PATE, The Orlando Sentinel “ novels can be classed as espionage thrillers, but they are much more than that. Such are the novels of Alan Furst, who uses the shadowy world of espionage to illuminate history and politics with a gripping immediacy.
They seep into your dreams and haunt your waking hours until eventually they seem the stuff of memory and experience. The real protagonist is Europe itself, which comes to stunning life in Furst’s brilliant prose.” -MARK JOHNSON, San Jose Mercury News “Some books you read. THOBAE, Houston Chronicle “Alan Furst’s The Polish Officer. I recommend it for its profound sense of history, its suspense and the quiet heroism of its characters.” -CHARLES P. The Polish Officer is a classic spy story replete with the moral ambiguities found in a world at war. The Polish Officer transcends the spy novel while delivering everything any fan of le Carré could ask for.” -ROBIN WINKS, The Boston Globeįurs_0375758275_3p_fm1_r1.qxd 8/30/01 9:35 AM Page b This is a riveting ‘pure’ story, rich with character, wonderfully exact.
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Perhaps the reason is that it is so much more than a spy novel: it is a moving love story it is full of carefully observed and utterly unromanticized tradecraft and the reader will learn more about the actual business of intelligence from this novel than from nearly all other ‘spy novelists’ combined.
Language this lovely vaults the categories we lazily constrain literature with.” -MAUREEN CORRIGAN, Fresh Air “The best spy novel I’ve read in years. evokes the mood of conquered cities like Warsaw, Paris, and Barcelona. The Polish Officer portrays ordinary men and women caught out on the sharp edge of military intelligence operations in wartime: the partisans, saboteurs, resistance fighters and idealistic volunteers risking their lives in causes that seem lost.” -ROBERT CHATAIN, Chicago Tribune “Furst’s scrupulous attention to spycraft and period detail. among the most exciting and satisfying adventure stories I know. The book is a triumph with something to remember on every page: a thrilling event, a vivid character, a telling detail, a wise observation.” -CHARLES MCCARRY, author of The Tears of Autumn “Brilliantly imagined, vividly drawn, rich with incident and detail. Furst makes idealism, heroism, and sacrifice believable and real, and what he has written here is a first-rate popular entertainment, terrifically plotted, absorbing on every page, and thoroughly satisfying.” -DAVID WALTON, The Dallas Morning News “The Polish Officer is the finest novel I’ve read in years, beautifully written, powerfully imagined, and riveting as pure story, yet so true to the historical facts and to the human realities of the tortured Europe of 1940–41 that it deserves to be regarded as an act of witness as well as an enthralling work of fiction. With the authority of solid research and a true fascination for his material, Mr.
All this goes to put this novel head and shoulders above any other recent fiction of its kind.” -ALAN CHEUSE, All Things Considered “ depictions of wartime Europe have the richness and complexity of the fiction of John le Carré and Somerset Maugham. There’s suspense galore and not a touch of abrasive melodrama. The historical data seems absolutely convincing. characters seem utterly affecting and true. Praise for Alan Furst and The Polish Officer “Epic.
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