The Foreign Correspondent : A Novel (Paperback)

from elenchus

Carlo Weisz is the foreign correspondent in question, a refugee from Trieste now covering the coming war for Reuters Paris. Weisz also is active in an Italian resistance group publishing Liberazione, a revived paper originally crushed by the Italian fascists, now smuggled into Italy, printed by s...

from susan259

Yet another book that causes me to lament the fact that genre fiction gets no respect. This is beautifully written, beautifully crafted and much more than a "spy novel."

from GTTexas

Made even more interesting by traveling through some of the territory covered by the book. Reading some of the history of early WWII Spain/France/Italy at the same time was doubly interesting. One of a dozen or so I read on a Mediterranean cruise.

from dougwood57

With 'Foreign Correspondent', Alan Furst's renown continues to grow. Furst once again centers his novel in pre-World War Two Paris, but this time his protagonist hails from southern Europe - Italy - rather than France or eastern Europe. Carlo Weisz is a journalist with the Associated Press (in a ...

from Polaris-

An immersive visit to pre-war Europe, our stay begins and ends in Paris 1938/39. Alan Furst is a master of mood, and setting scenes so vividly that you can hear the sounds of the city and smell the food in the café. He writes with a level of detail that had me eagerly cross referencing period sty...