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false <![CDATA[The Foreign Correspondent]]> 253555 10 From Alan Furst, whom The New York Times calls “America’s preeminent spy novelist,” comes an epic story of romantic love, love of country, and love of freedom–the story of a secret war fought in elegant hotel bars and first-class railway cars, in the mountains of Spain and the backstreets of Berlin. It is an inspiring, thrilling saga of everyday people forced by their hearts’ passion to fight in the war against tyranny. 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 émigré life, they founded an Italian resistance, with an 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 traged–it is the work of the OVRA, Mussolini’s fascist secret police, and is meant to eliminate the editor of Liberazione, a clandestine émigré 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 Sûreté, 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 Carlo Weisz and 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. The Foreign Correspondent is Alan Furst at his absolute best–taut and powerful, enigmatic and romantic, with sharp, seductive writing that takes the reader through darkness and intrigue to a spectacular denouement. From the Hardcover edition. 1344970 2006 The Foreign Correspondent total:456|5:71|4:211|3:135|2:34|1:5| 456 1677 723 95 87068 1400060192 9781400060191 13 3 The Foreign Correspondent: A Novel 3.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171097197m/87068.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/87068.The_Foreign_Correspondent_A_Novel 3 3 false Thu Mar 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 11 15:21:09 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 14 04:19:56 -0700 2008 more...]]> 253555 0812967976 9780812967975 431 87 The Foreign Correspondent 3.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173162942m/253555.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/253555.The_Foreign_Correspondent 4 1 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 30 11:10:00 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 10 14:17:49 -0700 2007 more...]]> 253555 0812967976 9780812967975 431 87 The Foreign Correspondent 3.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173162942m/253555.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/253555.The_Foreign_Correspondent 2 1 false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 08 22:24:29 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 08 22:25:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 253555 0812967976 9780812967975 431 87 The Foreign Correspondent 3.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173162942m/253555.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/253555.The_Foreign_Correspondent 4 1 false Tue Jul 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 14:33:56 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 14:54:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 253555 0812967976 9780812967975 431 87 The Foreign Correspondent 3.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173162942m/253555.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/253555.The_Foreign_Correspondent 2 0 false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu May 14 22:19:34 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 22:20:09 -0700 2009
The Foreign Correspondent is set in Paris in 1938, on the eve of World War II. It tells t...more...]]> 87068 1400060192 9781400060191 13 3 The Foreign Correspondent: A Novel 3.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171097197m/87068.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/87068.The_Foreign_Correspondent_A_Novel 0 0 false Thu Feb 05 09:39:36 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:39:36 -0800 2009 Critics seem remorseful about handing Alan Furst less-than-glowing reviews. Widely acknowledged as a modern master of the spy thriller (he's often named alongside John le Carr_� and Graham Greene) and a masterful prose stylist, Furst leapt onto the scene with Night Soldiers and has since delivered ...

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Carlo, the foreign correspondent, lives quite happily as an Italian emigre in Paris, 1938. He is a member of a group of Italian expats who write an anti-Fascist newspaper which they smuggle back into Italy. It is his membersh...more...]]> 253555 0812967976 9780812967975 431 87 The Foreign Correspondent 3.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173162942m/253555.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/253555.The_Foreign_Correspondent 2 0 false Tue Aug 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 19:34:28 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 22:31:47 -0700 2009 1
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The story involves an Italian emigre' journalist who, while working for the Reuters News Bureau, also publishes an anti-fascist newspaper that is clandestin...more...]]> 253555 0812967976 9780812967975 431 87 The Foreign Correspondent 3.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173162942m/253555.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/253555.The_Foreign_Correspondent 4 0 false Thu Feb 07 17:00:31 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 04 13:26:54 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 07 16:59:40 -0800 2008
This novel begins west of Barcelona in the Spanish Civil War, 1935, and ...more...]]> 253555 0812967976 9780812967975 431 87 The Foreign Correspondent 3.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173162942m/253555.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/253555.The_Foreign_Correspondent 4 0 false Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Tue Sep 18 15:19:57 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 18 15:23:46 -0700 2007 The Foreign Correspondent. Furst is the author of several books dealing with espionage before and during World War II. The novels are generally unrelated, although Furst provides little touches of continuity as characters and locations from previous novels are ...more...]]> 253555 0812967976 9780812967975 431 87 The Foreign Correspondent 3.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173162942m/253555.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/253555.The_Foreign_Correspondent 3 0 false Tue Dec 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 01 17:00:01 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 17:08:57 -0800 2009 more...]]> 253555 0812967976 9780812967975 431 87 The Foreign Correspondent 3.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173162942m/253555.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/253555.The_Foreign_Correspondent 2 0 false Thu Oct 29 15:26:39 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 15:30:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 253555 0812967976 9780812967975 431 87 The Foreign Correspondent 3.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173162942m/253555.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/253555.The_Foreign_Correspondent 3 0 false Mon Mar 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 09 15:17:33 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 09 15:23:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 253555 0812967976 9780812967975 431 87 The Foreign Correspondent 3.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173162942m/253555.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/253555.The_Foreign_Correspondent 4 0 false Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sat Jan 19 11:15:51 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 19 11:17:57 -0800 2008 more...]]> 253555 0812967976 9780812967975 431 87 The Foreign Correspondent 3.68 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173162942m/253555.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/253555.The_Foreign_Correspondent 4 0 false Sat Feb 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Aug 02 17:37:46 -0700 2008 Tue Feb 17 14:05:35 -0800 2009 This was much quieter than a lot of...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3976259