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  <title><![CDATA[Passport to Peril (Hard Case Crime #57)]]></title>
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  <default_description>Decades before Robert Brown Parker began writing his books about Spenser, a man named Robert Bogardus Parker (1905-1955) penned this extraordinary novel of post-war intrigue.

From the corridors and compartments of the Orient Express to the shadowy, ruined streets of Budapest&#8212;which he saw firsthand as a foreign correspondent during World War II&#8212;Parker takes you on a nightmare tour of a land where life is cheap, old hatreds run strong, and a couple of Americans can find themselves in more danger than they ever imagined.

With all the immediacy of the wartime dispatches Parker filed from Turkey, Danzig, Warsaw, and Bucharest and all the authority of a man who himself spent three years crossing borders without a passport and narrowly avoiding arrest by the Gestapo, PASSPORT TO PERIL paints a heart-stopping picture of desperate men in a desperate time.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_day type="integer">30</original_publication_day>
  <original_publication_month type="integer">7</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">2009</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Passport to Peril (Hard Case Crime #57)</original_title>
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  <average_rating><![CDATA[3.19]]></average_rating>
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      <name><![CDATA[Robert B. Parker]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jun 16 15:47:59 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Aug 28 19:08:15 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[John Stodder, an American reporter, goes to Hungary with a forged passport to look for his brother who disappeared after a bombing run in WWII.  Only the passport Stodder received wasn't forged.  It was that of a murdered man.  And Stodder just happens to run into the murdered man's secretary on the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59943176">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[Jesse]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Aug 04 17:16:25 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Laaaame. Maybe Hard Case is cutting back because they can't find enough quality pulp. No shame in that, and better six books a year than this. Bleah. Scheming Nazi who says &quot;ve have vays of making you talk.&quot; Instant love between hero and girl. Predictable plot twists. Sometimes a book dese...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66218797">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Mar 08 10:00:31 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jul 30 18:45:26 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pretty good reprint title from the Hard Case Crime line. First off, the author is NOT the Robert B. Parker who writes the Boston P.I. Spenser series. <br/><br/>This author is Robert Bogardus Parker, Jr. who, as his daughter explains in the Afterword, was a newspaperman dying of a heart attack in 1...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48598412">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65991482">
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  <date_added>Mon Aug 03 08:24:42 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Aug 03 08:26:07 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book by not that Robert B. Parker is full of rich pulpy goodness.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65991482]]></url>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is sometimes an interesting period piece, and the author did have experience as a reporter who spent time in midst of post-WW2 divisions of spoils in Europe. But overall not one of my favorite Hard Case titles.  Perhaps I should have given it 2.49 stars, or maybe 2.51.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[evil nazis save the plot]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[ok, Robert B Parker III (spencer) father is author of this interesting post WWII crime novel.]]></body>
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