The Foreign Correspondent (Abridged)

by Alan Furst Narrated by Alfred Molina

Overview

From Alan Furst, bestselling author of Blood of Victory and Dark Voyage, comes a thrilling saga of everyday people forced by their hearts' passion to fight in the war against tyranny.

Paris, a winter night in 1938: a murder/suicide at a discreet lovers' hotel. But this is no romantic tragedy -- 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, 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 story of a secret war fought in elegant hotel bars and first-class railway cars, in the mountains of Spain and the back streets of Berlin, The Foreign Correspondent is Alan Furst at his absolute best -- taut and powerful, enigmatic and romantic, with sharp, seductive writing that takes listeners through darkness and intrigue to a spectacular denouement.

Editorial Reviews

OCT/NOV 07 - AudioFile

Elegant. Alfred Molina's narration is a seamless match to Furst's novel, set in Paris in the late 1930s. Journalist Carl Weisz takes over an antifascist newspaper and is swept deeper into the international émigré community and the increasing danger of work for the Resistance. Molina's smooth, mannered speech echoes the shadowy world of suspended time and impending tragedy. His pace is wholly in tune with the story, moving slowly yet building subtle tension and internal conflicts. Weisz, who also works for Reuters News, is sent to Spain and to Germany, where he encounters numerous nationalities. Each vocal portrait is perfect, varied in class and station and smoldering with the undercurrents that inhabit Furst's characters. Finely abridged as well. R.F.W. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine

OCT/ NOV 07 - AudioFile

Elegant. Alfred Molina's narration is a seamless match to Furst's novel, set in Paris in the late 1930s. Journalist Carl Weisz takes over an antifascist newspaper and is swept deeper into the international émigré community and the increasing danger of work for the Resistance. Molina's smooth, mannered speech echoes the shadowy world of suspended time and impending tragedy. His pace is wholly in tune with the story, moving slowly yet building subtle tension and internal conflicts. Weisz, who also works for Reuters News, is sent to Spain and to Germany, where he encounters numerous nationalities. Each vocal portrait is perfect, varied in class and station and smoldering with the undercurrents that inhabit Furst's characters. Finely abridged as well. R.F.W. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940170888153
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster
Publication date:	06/01/2006
Edition description:	Abridged

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