The Foreign Correspondent, by Alan Furst
Apparently, I’m a huge fan of tales filled with the exciting adventures of journalists living abroad. Journalism and espionage it seems are not so distant cousins, and the intrigue of a foreign traveler always makes for a good story. Unlike Travels with Herodotus, and Down and out in Paris and London, this tale is fiction.
This tale follows Carlo Wiesz, an expatriate Italian living in Paris working for Reuters and moonlighting as a reporter for the underground anti-fascist newspaper Liberazione on the brink of WW2. His search of stories takes him all around Europe during the tumultuous time, and eventually entangles him in a spy mission in order to rescue his lover trying to escape Gestapo controlled Berlin.
It’s an engaging story, and my first Furst!
Rating: 7
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