The America Assignment

Jeremie Redevance

Published: 2017

Format: Paperback

Pages: 501

ISBN: 9781941634721

RRP: £8.99

Journalist Alerion de Beau lives a quiet life in Paris, penning cynical articles for a left-wing magazine. Yet when he is employed by an American newspaper to travel around the United States and write a weekly column on what he discovers there, Alerion quickly finds himself out of his comfort zone.

As the Frenchman journeys from vast modern cities to dusty little roadside towns, from the icy expanses of Alaska to the tropical islands of Hawaii, he soon finds that life in the US is bigger, bolder and far more complex than he has previously assumed. But the more he writes, the more ire he attracts from a few prolific figures in the right-wing American media, and soon Alerion’s cutting columns and outspoken opinions are in danger of landing him in serious trouble...