El Corresponsal

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From Alan Furst, hailed as “America’s preeminent spy novelist,” comes an epic tale of romantic love, patriotism, and the quest for freedom, set against the backdrop of a secret war fought in elegant hotel bars and first-class railway cars, from the mountains of Spain to the backstreets of Berlin. By 1938, many Italian intellectuals, lawyers, and journalists had fled Mussolini’s fascist regime for Paris, where they established an Italian resistance with an underground press that smuggled news back to Italy. This resistance fought fascism with typewriters, producing 512 clandestine newspapers. The story begins on a winter night in Paris, where a murder/suicide at a discreet hotel is orchestrated by Mussolini’s OVRA, targeting the editor of a clandestine newspaper. Carlo Weisz, who has escaped from Trieste and become a foreign correspondent for Reuters, steps into this role. At that moment, he is in Spain, covering the final campaign of the Spanish Civil War. Upon his return to Paris, he finds himself pursued by the French Sûreté, OVRA agents, and British intelligence. The narrative follows Weisz and a group of antifascists, including “Colonel Ferrara,” who fights in Spain, Arturo Salamone, a resistance leader in Paris, and Christa von Schirren, Weisz’s love, involved in a doomed Berlin underground. This gripping tale showcases Furst’s taut, powerful writing, leading readers through a world of darkness and intrigue to a stunn