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Christopher’s Ghosts, by Charles McCarry

Posted by Andre Kruger on Thursday, April 23, 2009, In : Spy Stories 
Christopher’s Ghosts, by Charles McCarry

This fascination with spy novels may pass soon, or it may not. I’m not making any apologies or taking any bets. Not really. I seem to be more powerfully attracted to good spy fiction as time goes by, as I age. (Or decay, depending on your level of compassion or charity). It’s like one of those exercises you would find in a magazine, edited by someone who took one undergraduate course of psychology, where you are asked to share with someone yo...

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Devil May Care, a James Bond novel by Sebastian Faulks, writing as Ian Fleming, read by me.

Posted by Andre Kruger on Thursday, April 23, 2009, In : Spy Stories 
Devil May Care, a James Bond novel by Sebastian Faulks, writing as Ian Fleming, read by me.

As a general rule one wants a book title to be pithy and to the point, the front wrapper to be clean and clear. In this the above book fails. In fact, the cover is, well, covered in writing. However, it needs every word, except of course the bit about me being the reader. That’s just me being facetious, but I think you gathered that already.
It does need all of the title though. If you have seen b...

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