Foreign Correspondent

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By 1939 thousands of Italian intellectuals teachers & lawyers journalists & scientists had fled Mussolinis fascist government & found refuge in Paris. There amidst the poverty & difficulty of emigre life they joined the Italian resistance founding an underground press that smuggled news & encouragement back to their lost homel&. In Paris in the winter of 1939 a murder/suicide at a lovers hotel hits the tabloid press. But this is not a romantic tragedy it is the work of OVRA Mussolinis fascist secret police & meant to eliminate the editor of Liberazione a clandestine newspaper published by Italian emigres. Carlo Weisz who has fled from Trieste & found work as a foreign correspondent for the Reuters bureau becomes the new editor. Weisz is at that moment in Spain reporting on the tragic end of the Spanish civil war but as soon as he returns to Paris he is pursued by the French Surete by agents of OVRA & 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 Foreign Correspondent is the story of Carlo Weisz & a handful of anti-fascists -- the army officer known as Colonel Ferrara who fights for a lost cause in Spain Arturo Salamone the shrewd leader of a resistance group in Paris & the woman who becomes the love of his Weiszs life herself involved in a doomed resistance underground in Berlin at the heart of Hitlers Nazi empire.