The Foreign Correspondent – Alan Furst
General Information
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Title: The Foreign Correspondent
Author: Alan Furst
Read By: George Guidall
Copyright: 2006
Genre: Thriller
Series Name: Night Soldiers
Position in Series: 09
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Book Description
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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Furst’s reputation as one of today’s best writers, in
any genre, is further solidified by this gripping historical thriller
with echoes of Graham Greene, which opens in Paris in December 1938.
Journalist Carlo Weisz, an expatriate Italian who’s half Slav, is fighting
the Mussolini regime by writing for the Paris-based underground opposition
newspaper, the Liberazione. When agents of the OVRA, the Italian secret
police, murder the Liberazione’s editor in the arms of his mistress,
Weisz assumes greater responsibility for keeping the paper running.
OVRA also targets Weisz and his surviving colleagues, forcing him to
scramble to stay alive while continuing his subversive work. Furst (Night
Soldiers) excels at characterization, making even secondary figures
such as shadowy presences from British intelligence and Nazi minders
more than cartoon stereotypes. Through the exploits of his understated
hero, Furst presents a potent portrait of Europe on the eve of WWII.
From Booklist
Starred Review Paris, 1939. When we heard that dateline, we used to
think of Rick, Ilsa, and Sam, tinkling "As Time Goes By" in the background.
Now we think of Alan Furst. His latest expatriate in Paris is a journalist,
Carlo Weisz, half Italian and half Slav, working as a foreign correspondent
for Reuters and finding himself drawn into the steadily more dangerous
activities of the Italian Resistance. What makes Furst’s world so utterly
seductive is the tantalizing sliver of time he writes about: not World
War II but the period just prior to its beginning in earnest, when secret
agents of every stripe were huddled in Paris, and cynical individualists
were facing the realization that even they stood to be trapped in the
coming crossfire. But they weren’t trapped quite yet, and despite the
storm clouds, romance still hung in the night air: Weisz, for example,
was "living on the diet imagined by every dreamer who ever went to Paris:
bread, cheese, and wine"–and women, who were "a classic, and effective,
addition to the diet." But politics was part of the diet, too, roughage
of a kind, and gradually Weisz moves from writing the occasional antifascist
article for a Resistance newspaper to taking a more active role, spurred
by his desire to help his lover, living in Berlin, escape the Nazis.
Furst fans will delight in identifying the various characters from earlier
novels who make cameos here, but that’s only a pleasant aperitif, like
greeting old friends at your favorite restaurant. The real pleasure
is the meal itself, and Furst serves another delicious helping of Paris
suspended in a brief moment of time when everyone waited for something
to happen, good or bad: "Il faut en fenir" (There must be an end to
this). Fortunately, for Furst readers, not quite yet.
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