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Colleen Chi-Girl
A book I read years and years ago but never reviewed. I can give it 4 ⭐️ for the thriller aspect but it goes way down in the rating because of the misogynistic attitudes of the sarcastic jerky males in (all) his novels. Times were very different then and the world was/is chauvinist and white male oriented. However at least we know better now and have many amazing novelists and memoirs that teach us to be better and want more for humanity and ourselves. Find other thrillers that don’t involve rid ...more
Jen
Dec 12, 2007 rated it really liked it
Shelves: fiction
One of the best fictional cold war spy books ever.
Amina
Aug 25, 2008 rated it it was amazing
Johanne
Sep 15, 2008 rated it it was ok
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Shelves: world-tour, europe
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