A Question of Paternity

My Life as an Unaffiliated Reporter
NEW FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS: As a foreign correspondent and TV journalist David Tereshschuk has reported from many of the world's most intractable troublespots but one question continues to elude him: who his father was. RECOMMENDED BY CARL BERNSTEIN, NEAL ASCHERSON AND CARY BARBOR

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David Tereshchuk leapt from a bleak childhood in a small town on the English-Scottish borders to a precocious high-flying career as a TV reporter, first in London, then in New York. During his years as a journalist, he managed to elicit revealing statements from tyrants and the oppressed, but there was one person he never persuaded to open up to him—his mother.

He wanted to know just one thing: who his father was. It wasn't until he was in his 50s that she confided to having been raped, aged 15, by a priest – and even then, not all her information was reliable.

Alongside his career, the search for his mother’s abuser has haunted him, adding further layers of stress to a life already marked by alcoholism and insecurity.

This is his astonishing story, one that deserves to sit alongside those of Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings and David Brinkley.

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