Naples ’44

Place · District

Vomero (Naples)

Vomero is a hilltop quarter of Naples, Italy — comprising approximately two square kilometres (0.77 sq mi) and a population of 48,000.

In the book

The hilltop quarter, associated with the section’s informant network and with several intelligence flaps — the false-mine mass evacuation, the traced Anzio leak.

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Appears in 5 diary entries.

  1. October 23 1943
    A false tip about mass delayed-action mines triggers a chaotic mass evacuation of Naples, including hospital patients and the bedridden.
  2. November 1 1943
    Lewis is indignant at the drastic cut to informant funds, arguing money isn't really what motivates their most dedicated Italian contacts.
  3. January 14 1944
    Amid a flood of usually-worthless rumors, one turns out to be true — an imminent Anzio landing — sending Lewis scrambling to trace a security leak.
  4. March 3 1944
    An account of a bizarre, catastrophic Allied intelligence scheme prompted by fears that prostitution was being used to spread disease among troops.
  5. October 24 1944
    Lewis is abruptly ordered to a new mission repatriating Russian ex-POWs, sensing this marks the end of his time in Naples.

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