The Amateur

'The Amateur' is a novel written by Richard Harding Davis, a man best remembered today for being the first American war correspondent to cover the Spanish–American War, the Second Boer War, and the First World War. It is thus no wonder that the main character of this novel shares the same occupation as he; Austin Ford, a man currently working as the London correspondent of the New York Republic. For three years on that most sensational of the New York dailies he had been the star man, the chief muckraker, the chief sleuth.