Hugh Addison

Beirut Station

  • How Should Fiction Talk About War

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    Paul Vidich

    “Does your novel speak to Hamas’s attack on Israel?”  I got the question during a podcast interview I was giving to support the launch of my new novel, which is set during the 2006 34-day Hezbollah-Israeli War.  My novel came out shortly before Hamas’s October 7 assault on Israel and my interview was a few…

  • How Paul Vidich Builds His World of Spies

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    Peter Handel

    “We all have secrets… Secrets are a part of our lives and the lives of literature’s great characters. But spies operate in a more complex world of secrets – things they hide from family, from friends, and from themselves,” says Paul Vidich, whose latest novel, Beirut Station, buzzes with those secrets. “I found the double…

  • The Best Hotels – and Hotel Bars – in Espionage Fiction

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    Paul Vidich

    Bars in grand hotels figure prominently in the canon of spy literature. One of the pleasures I get from reading the novels of Joseph Kanon, Graham Greene and other masters of the spy genre, is that the anonymous guests in the grand hotels come alive with a backstory and confidential business discussed over martinis is…

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