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Book Review: The Nearest Exit by Olen Steinhauer
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Erskine Childers and The Riddle of the Sands
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A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carré
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Eugene Debs and the Fight for Free Speech
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Comrade J by Pete Earley
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The Last Victorian: John Buchan and the Hannay Quartet
December 25, 2024But, even more importantly, he also struck the first modern note in the evolution of the...




