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Durrell was posted in Yugoslavia from around 1948-52, and clearly drew upon his knowledge of the landscape there to inform the geography of this potboiler spy adventure. The story takes place just before the Tito-Stalin split in 1948, and finds a British special agent lounging in London following an apparently harrowing series of adventures in Malaya (although presumably not as harrowing as they would have been had he stayed for the "Emergency"). In any event, his boss rather drolly convinces hi
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