Word: petersburg
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...from St. Petersburg, Follett...
...FROM ST. PETERSBURG by Ken Follett Morrow; 323 pages...
This scenario is shrewdly amplified by an expert in the art of ransacking history for thrills. British Novelist Ken Follett, 32, rewrote World War II in The Eye of the Needle and reinterpreted Middle East tensions in Triple. In The Man from St. Petersburg, he recalls Russia and England during the days just before the Great War. As always, his plot is eerily plausible...
Frustrated by lower salaries than those at big dailies up north, by a shortage of Washington and foreign assignments and by the lack of urgent local news in much of Florida, able young reporters often leave. Indeed, Andrew Barnes, managing editor of the St. Petersburg Times, has acknowledged to his staff that the paper is "an academy" from which the best and the brightest are likely to "graduate...
That is a boon to readers in the rest of the U.S.: these are emigrants from the best journalism academy in the land, and papers elsewhere could profit from their lessons. - By William A. Henry III. Reported by BJ. Phillips/ St. Petersburg...