Finished reading CAUSE FOR ALARM by British spy fiction writer Eric Ambler.
Nicholas Marlow needs a job. He's engaged to be married and the employment market is pretty slim in Britain in 1937. So when his fiancé points out the Spartacus Machine Tool notice, he jumps at the chance. After all, he speaks Italian and he figures he'll be able to endure Milan for a year, long enough to save some money. Soon after he arrives, however, he learns the sinister truth of his predecessor's death and finds himself courted by two agents with dangerously different agendas. In the process, Marlow realizes it's not so simple to just do the job he's paid to do in fascist Italy on the eve of a world war.
This wraps up my reading for 2017. During the year I finished reading 54 books, 42 by male authors and 12 by female authors. Out of the total, 4 were Classics.