The Foreign Correspondent (2006) (edit title/settings)

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Characters/People edit see section history

• Carlo Weisz: Add a description of this character.
• S. Kolb
• Colonel Ferrara
• Salamone
• Elena
• Mussolini
• Mr. Brown
• Christa
• Delahanty
• Hitler
• Mary Mcgrath
• Emil
• Veronique
• Arturo
• Sandoval
• Grassone
• Bottini
• Hamilton
• Polanyi
• Olivia
• Guerin
• Monsieur Weisz
• Matteo
• Simard
• Eric Wolf
• Herr Weisz
• Sven
• Lady Angela
• Franco
• Mr. Lane
• Millman
• Madame Lacroix
• Gabriella
• Gerda
• Martz
• Perini
• Henri
• Madame Rigaud

Quotes edit see section history

• “Nothing like being shot at; if they miss”

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• “Do you know the old Karl Kraus line? ‘How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.’”

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• “‘You were given a choice between shame and war. You have chosen shame, and you shall have war,’”

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• Carlo Weisz was a foreign correspondent, had been with the Milanese Corriere della Sera, then emigrated to Paris in 1935 and somehow found work with the Reuters bureau.

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• “Not only are the streets not paved with gold, they are not paved, and we are expected to pave them.”

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• Mary McGrath of the Chicago Tribune, and a lieutenant from the Republican forces, Sandoval, who was their minder, driver, and bodyguard.

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• “Potere è meglio di fottere.” Nice rhyme, there, the sort of thing that made it fun to say, and easy to remember. “Power is better than fucking.”

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• “Va f’an culo, alalà!” Go fuck yourself in the ass.

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• The leader of the group, Arturo Salamone,

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• Today, it was the story of the SS St. Louis, which had sailed from Hamburg with 936 German Jews in flight from the Reich, but could find no harbor. Barred from landing in Cuba, the refugees appealed to President Roosevelt, who first said yes, then said sorry. Political forces in America were violently set against Jewish immigration. So, the previous day, a final statement: the St. Louis, waiting at sea between Cuba and Florida, would not be allowed to dock. Now she would have to return to Germany.

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• The man in the back of the Lancia was called Ettore, il conte Amandola—the nineteenth Ettore, Hector, in the Amandola line, and count only the grandest of his titles. Closer to sixty than fifty, he had dark, slightly bulging eyes, as though life

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Paris
• Italy
• Berlin
• France
• Spain
• Rome
• Trieste
• London
• Marseilles
• Europe
• Prague
• Genoa
• Albania
• America
• Siena
• Britain
• Vienna
• Zagreb
• Tournon
• Slovakia
• Portofino
• Liberazione
• Corvino
• England
• Ethiopia
• Bristol
• Croatia
• Tarbes

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Table of Contents edit see section history

Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by Dark Voyage, and followed by The Spies of Warsaw.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Alan Furst (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 813

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Thrillers › Spy Stories & Tales of Intrigue
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Historical
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary