The Warsaw Revenant
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“For readers of John le Carré, Alan Furst, and Charles Cumming.”
At the funeral of a retired GCHQ analyst, Marcus Vane sees a man in the third row who has been dead for years. No one else notices. No one else could — the dead man was very good at being dead. What follows is a quiet excavation of a Cold War protocol that was never buried, only waiting.
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How it begins
The man in the third row is not supposed to be alive. Marcus Vane sees him at nine-fourteen on a Tuesday morning in the Chapel of Rest at Kensal Green Cemetery, at the funeral of a retired GCHQ analyst named Arthur Pemberton, who died of a heart attack six days ago in his sleep. Marcus clocks him in the first sweep of the room. Trained habit — entry, seating, exits, faces. He is in the back row. The dead man is in the third. Blue tie. Dark suit. Order of service held in both hands, reading with the attentiveness of someone performing normality. His name is Teodor Nowak. Former Polish ABW intelligence officer. Confirmed dead eighteen months ago in a car accident outside Warsaw. The death was verified by Polish authorities, the German BND, and MI6’s Warsaw station. Three independent confirmations. A sealed file. Marcus has seen the face before. He has seen it for the first time twelve days ago, on a printed photograph that Helena Ng — twenty-eight years old, second-year analyst in Rania’s directorate, the woman who had pulled Pemberton’s alumni note from the wrong file at three in the morning a fortnight ago — had handed him in the storage room on the seventh floor. The photograph had been taken with a long lens at the back of this same chapel six days
Is this your kind of book?
The Warsaw Revenant is cold, cerebral Cold War espionage — one city, one ledger, one betrayal at a time. In Brian Courrier’s own words it is for readers of John le Carré, Alan Furst, and Charles Cumming: patient, plotted, and more interested in what people conceal than in how loudly it ends.
This is Book Four of Marcus Vane. Each book closes its own case, so it can be read on its own — but the series is built to be read in order, and starting at The Lisbon Exchange means the connections land the way they were written.
The Marcus Vane in order
- The Lisbon Exchangefree
- The Bucharest Ledger$2.99
- The Istanbul Signal$2.99
- The Warsaw Revenant$2.99 · you are here
- The Belgrade Cipher$2.99
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