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Ryan is a botanist who likes to write about history. Go figure. Escape & Evasion Report No. 686 is his first published work, and something of a preview to the full length biography of the American spy mentioned therein. ...more

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Anna Karenina

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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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