Newsweek Correspondent Proposes Book On Fiancée's Death In Baghdad — Three Weeks Later

Newsweek Baghdad correspondent Michael Hastings‘ book proposal sold last Tuesday for $500,000 to Scribner, a publishing source told FishbowlNY Thursday. The book, about Hastings’ experiences working as a young journalist in Iraq, focuses on the author’s relationship with 28-year-old Andrea “Andi” Parhamovich, a civilian consulting with NGO National Democratic Institute in Baghdad who was killed January 2717, 2007 in an ambush there.

In his January 29, 2007, editor’s letter, Newsweek Jon Meacham billed it as a “death in the family,” describing how at the time of Parhamovich’s death, Hastings had plans to take her to Paris the following month to propose.