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By 1938, hundreds of Italian intellectuals, lawyers and journalists, university professors and scientists, had escaped Mussolini's fascist government and taken refuge in Paris. There, amid the struggles of emigre life, they founded and Italian resistance, with and underground press that smuggled news and encouragement back to Italy. Fighting fascism with typewriters, they produced 512 clandestine newspapers. The Foreign Correspondent is their story.
Paris, a winter night in 1938: a murder/suicide at a discreet lovers' hotel. But this is no romantic tragedy - it is the work of the OVRA, Mussolini's fascist secret police, and is meant to eliminate the editor of Liberazione, a clandestine emigre newspaper. Carlo Weisz, who has fled from Trieste and secured a job as a foreign correspondent with the Reuters bureau, becomes the new editor.
Weisz is, at that moment, in Spain, reporting on the last campaign of the Spanish civil war. But as soon as he returns to Paris, he is pursued by the French Surete, by agents of the OVRA, and by officers of the British Secret Intelligence Service. In the desperate politics of Europe on the edge of war, a foreign correspondent is a pawn, worth surveillance, or blackmail, or murder.
The Foreign Correspondent is the story of a handful of antifascists: the army officer known as "Colonel Ferrara," who fights for a lost cause in Spain; Arturo Salamone, the shrewd leader of a resistance group in Paris: and Christa von Schirren, the woman who becomes the love of Weisz's life, herself involved in a doomed resistance underground in Berlin.
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There are writers who so capture the feel of a particular historical time and place that, once you¿ve read them, it¿s impossible to look back to the period without sensing their presence. Alan Furst, with his novels of wartime Europe, is one of those authors. (Simon Shaw MAIL ON SUNDAY)
enjoyably gripping tale of spies and skulduggery (Christina Koning TIMES)
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The next great page-turner from the master of the noir spy novel.
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- PublisherRandom House Inc
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 1400060192
- ISBN 13 9781400060191
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages273
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