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    Foreign Correspondent
    Foreign Correspondent
    Foreign Correspondent
    Audiobook9 hours

    Foreign Correspondent

    Written by Alan Furst

    Narrated by George Guidall

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    About this audiobook

    2007 Audie Award Finalist for Thriller/Suspense
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateJan 4, 2011
    ISBN9781442342491
    Foreign Correspondent
    Author

    Alan Furst

    Alan Furst is widely recognized as the master of the historical spy novel. He is the author of Night Soldiers, Dark Star, The Polish Officer, The World at Night, Red Gold, Kingdom of Shadows, Blood of Victory, and Dark Voyage. Born in New York, he has lived for long periods in France, especially Paris. He now lives on Long Island, New York. Visit the author's website at AlanFurst.net.

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    • 3/5
      I've like other Furst books more, but this one was entertaining enough. I think what I've liked most about the others is that they present a view of WWII from viewpoints that are sympathetic, but completely foreign to me (Polish, Check, etc.)There is at least one amusing scene in The Foreign Correspondent where the protagonist meets some characters from other novels, playing out a scene from that other novel from a different viewpoint. Given that the world of spies and spying immediately before and during WWII in France is necessarily small, I supposed the surprise should be that this hasn't happened earlier.While Furst normally deals with characters who are actively involved in espionage, willingly or unwillingly, Carlo Weisz only takes on that role at the very end, and only to a small degree. Somehow I didn't find the workings of an Italian ex-patriot opposition newspaper group as compelling and interesting as a reporter trying to figure out who he is actually spying for, or recruited soldier and killer trying to hold on to himself and find a way through and out. Weisz is an interesting man, and the story certainly kept me reading, but I still felt like something was missing.
    • 2/5
      There are a number of reasons why I didn’t like Mr. Furst’s “The Foreign Correspondent,” slow style, greater than thou attitude, superciliousness, the blind eye it turns towards the French’s duplicity toward anti-Semitism, etc. But what I really can’t abide is when a story is boring and boy was this one somnolent. The novel is short, running only 270 pages, but it was painful page turning. Obviously Mr. Furst’s writing style doesn’t appeal to me and I made a mistake in thinking that I could comb the depths of French pomposity, I was wrong. I am sorry.
    • 4/5
      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.
    • 3/5
      Expatriate Italians in Paris produce an underground newspaper.
    • 4/5
      ok. good, but not his best. moved quickly, more dialogue than usual.