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Book that made me go hmmmm…

The Once and Future Spy by Robert Littell

December 7, 2020 by LanierHgts 3 Comments

I am a huge fan of mystery and spy novels, so when I saw this in a Free Little Library I picked it up based on the title alone.  I then read the blurb on the back of the book from a NY Times review which called Littell the American John Le Carré.  I don’t like Le Carré’s work (based on the two books of his that I have read), so it took me a while to decide I was going to read this anyway […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: cbr12, Robert Littell, Suspense, thriller

LanierHgts's CBR12 Review No:11 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: cbr12, Robert Littell, Suspense, thriller ·
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