Naples '44: An Intelligence Officer in the Italian Labyrinth Stanley Coren In his longing for truth

In his longing for truth and liberty

and short stories

leprosy in the medieval West and in the 19th-century tropical world

plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being

as Time magazine observed

Naples '44: An Intelligence Officer in the Italian Labyrinth Stanley Coren In his longing for truthNorman Lewis arrived in Naples as an Intelligence Officer attached to the American Fifth Army. By 1944 the city's inhabitants were so destitute that all the tropical fish in the aquarium had been devoured, and numbers of respectable women had been driven to prostitution. The Mafia gradually became so indispensable to the occupying forces that it succeeded in regaining its former power. Despite the cruelty and suffering he encountered, Norman Lewis