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Mirron Willis
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Nuruddin Farah
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A dozen years after his last visit, Jeebleh returns to his beloved Mogadiscio to see old friends. He is accompanied by his son-in-law, Malik, a journalist intent on covering the region's ongoing turmoil. What greets them at first is not the chaos Jeebleh remembers, however, but an eerie calm enforced by ubiquitous white-robed figures bearing whips.
Meanwhile, Malik's brother, Ahl, has arrived in Puntland, the region notorious as a pirates' base. Ahl is searching for his stepson, Taxliil, who has vanished from Minneapolis, apparently recruited by an imam allied to Somalia's rising religious insurgency. The brothers' efforts draw them closer to Taxliil and deeper into the fabric of the country, even as Somalis brace themselves for an Ethiopian invasion. Jeebleh leaves Mogadiscio only a few hours before the borders are breached and raids descend from land and sea. As the uneasy quiet shatters and the city turns into a battle zone, the brothers experience firsthand the derailments of war.
Completing the trilogy that began with Links and Knots, Crossbones is a fascinating look at individuals caught in the maw of zealotry, profiteering, and political conflict, by one of our most highly acclaimed international writers.
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- De: Mohammed Al Samawi
- Narrado por: Assaf Cohen
- Duración: 10 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 153
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 138
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 137
Born in the Old City of Sana’a, Yemen, to a pair of middle-class doctors, Mohammed Al Samawi was a devout Muslim raised to think of Christians and Jews as his enemy. But when Mohammed was 23, he secretly received a copy of the Bible, and what he read cast doubt on everything he’d previously believed. After connecting with Jews and Christians on social media, and at various international interfaith conferences, Mohammed became an activist, making it his mission to promote dialogue and cooperation in Yemen. Then came the death threats....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Engaging and informative memoir
- De Mark en 08-02-18
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Eichmann in My Hands
- A First-Person Account by the Israeli Agent Who Captured Hitler's Chief Executioner
- De: Peter Z. Malkin, Harry Stein
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 8 h y 58 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 84
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 79
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 78
In 1960 Argentina, a covert team of Israeli agents hunted down the most elusive war criminal alive: Adolf Eichmann, chief architect of the Holocaust. The young spy who tackled Eichmann on a Buenos Aires street - and fought every compulsion to strangle the Obersturmführer then and there - was Peter Z. Malkin. For decades Malkin's identity as Eichmann's captor was kept secret. Here he reveals the entire breathtaking story - from the genesis of the top-secret surveillance operation to the dramatic public capture and smuggling of Eichmann to Israel to stand trial.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent the first person account
- De Barrett Francescatti en 02-09-22
De: Peter Z. Malkin, y otros
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The Return
- Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
- De: Hisham Matar
- Narrado por: Hisham Matar
- Duración: 8 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,024
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 912
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 913
When Hisham Matar was a 19-year-old university student in England, his father was kidnapped. One of the Qaddafi regime's most prominent opponents in exile, he was held in a secret prison in Libya. Hisham would never see him again. But he never gave up hope that his father might still be alive. "Hope," as he writes, "is cunning and persistent." Twenty-two years later, after the fall of Qaddafi, the prison cells were empty, and there was no sign of Jaballa Matar. Hisham returned with his mother and wife to the homeland he never thought he'd go back to again.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Touching memoir. Consider hard copy
- De Joschka Philipps en 02-22-18
De: Hisham Matar
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A Time to Betray
- The Astonishing Double Life of a CIA Agent inside the Revolutionary Guards of Iran
- De: Reza Kahlili
- Narrado por: Richard Allen
- Duración: 13 h y 54 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 471
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 377
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 377
A true story as exhilarating as a great spy thriller, as turbulent as today's headlines from the Middle East, A Time to Betray reveals what no other previous CIA operative's memoir possibly could: the inner workings of the notorious Revolutionary Guards of Iran, as witnessed by an Iranian man inside their ranks who spied for the American government.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great book, Farsi speakers will hate narrator
- De Johnny en 10-27-13
De: Reza Kahlili
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Agents of Innocence
- A Novel
- De: David Ignatius
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 14 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 270
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 232
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 233
Agents of Innocence is the book that established David Ignatius's reputation as a master of the novel of contemporary espionage. Into the treacherous world of shifting alliances and arcane subterfuge comes idealistic CIA man Tom Rogers. Posted in Beirut to penetrate the PLO and recruit a high-level operative, he soon learns the heavy price of innocence in a time and place that has no use for it.
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3 out of 5 stars
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breathy over-actor tarnishes an OK story
- De reader en 05-11-20
De: David Ignatius
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Topaz
- De: Leon Uris
- Narrado por: David de Vries
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 106
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 106
On the eve of the Cuban Missile Crisis in Paris, 1962, Devereaux and Nordstrom uncover Soviet plans to ship nuclear arms. But when nobody acts after sharing his findings, Devereaux becomes the target of an assassination attempt and soon realizes the plot extends far beyond Cuba - and himself. A thrilling and well-paced novel filled with Cold War intrigue, Topaz features two agents on a journey around the world to save NATO and themselves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A spy thriller in disguise
- De Shmuel M en 04-14-19
De: Leon Uris
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The Darling
- De: Russell Banks
- Narrado por: Mary Beth Hurt
- Duración: 14 h y 16 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 378
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 128
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 133
The Darling is Hannah Musgrave's story, told emotionally and convincingly years later by Hannah herself. A political radical and member of the Weather Underground, Hannah has fled America to West Africa, where she and her Liberian husband become friends and colleagues of Charles Taylor, the notorious warlord and now ex-president of Liberia. When Taylor leaves for the United States in an effort to escape embezzlement charges, he's immediately placed in prison.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Complex and compelling
- De Ellen H. Anderson en 02-05-05
De: Russell Banks
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Spycatcher
- De: Matthew Dunn
- Narrado por: Rich Orlow
- Duración: 13 h y 51 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 217
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 189
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 189
Matthew Dunn spent years as an MI6 field operative working on some of the West’s most clandestine missions. He recruited and ran agents, planned and participated in special operations, and operated deep undercover throughout the world. In Spycatcher he draws on this fascinating experience to breathe urgent, dynamic new life into the contemporary spy novel. Featuring deft and daring superspy Will Cochrane, Dunn paints a nerve-jangling, bracingly authentic picture of today’s secret world. It is a place where trust is precious and betrayal is cheap....
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1 out of 5 stars
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Juvenile and just bad
- De R. L. Ketcham en 08-30-11
De: Matthew Dunn
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A Spy by Nature
- A Novel
- De: Charles Cumming
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 11 h y 23 m
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General3 out of 5 stars 144
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 100
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 99
Alec Milius is young, smart, and ambitious. He also has a talent for deception. He is working in a dead-end job when a chance encounter leads him to MI6, the elite British Secret Intelligence Service, handing him an opportunity to play center stage in a dangerous game of espionage.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I highly recommend this little gem
- De Chou Young en 02-14-08
De: Charles Cumming
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The Submission
- A Novel
- De: Amy Waldman
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 12 h y 46 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 185
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 157
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 157
Claire Harwell hasn't settled into grief; events haven't let her. Cool, eloquent, raising two fatherless children, Claire has emerged as the most visible of the 9/11 widows who became a potent political force in the aftermath of the catastrophe. She longs for her husband, but she has found her mission: she sits on a jury charged with selecting a fitting memorial for the victims of the attack.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Some books were meant to be read...
- De Barbara en 02-24-12
De: Amy Waldman
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A Carrion Death
- Introducing Detective Kubu
- De: Michael Stanley
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 14 h y 19 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 269
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 132
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 131
Smashed skull, snapped ribs, and a cloying smell of carrion. Leave the body for the hyenas to devour - no body, no case. But when Kalahari game rangers stumble on a human corpse midmeal, it turns out the murder wasn't perfect after all. Enough evidence is left to suggest foul play. Detective David "Kubu" Bengu of the Botswana Criminal Investigation Department is assigned to the case.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Hot and Arid
- De Robert en 11-06-08
De: Michael Stanley
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Back Channel
- De: Stephen L. Carter
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 17 h y 33 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 60
October, 1962, in Cuba: Soviet ships off-load what intelligence reveals to be nuclear missiles. In Washington, President Kennedy and his advisers are in furious debate over how long they can wait to discover what the Soviets intend before dropping the first bomb. And, in Ithaca, New York, Margo Jensen - a 19-year-old Cornell sophomore - is swept up in a bizarre concatenation of circumstances that will make of her the back-channel liaison between Soviet Premier Khrushchev and Kennedy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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GREAT spy thriller!
- De Mark en 12-04-16
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Taking Morgan
- A Political Thriller
- De: David Rose
- Narrado por: Eva Kaminsky
- Duración: 11 h y 30 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 51
Morgan Cooper has always found it difficult to balance her home life - mother of two young children and wife of a workaholic civil rights lawyer - with her work life as an undercover CIA officer. When Morgan gets stressed, anxious, or scared, whether at home or in the field, she tends to talk to herself until she can clear her head. This habit, though, puts her life in danger during an assignment in the strife-torn Gaza Strip.
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4 out of 5 stars
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unrealistic
- De Coverdale en 08-09-22
De: David Rose
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Zoo Station
- John Russell WWII Spy, Book 1
- De: David Downing
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 10 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 65
By 1939, Anglo-American journalist John Russell has spent over a decade in Berlin, where his son lives with his mother. He writes human-interest pieces for British and American papers, avoiding the investigative journalism that could get him deported. But as World War II approaches, he faces having to leave his son as well as his girlfriend of several years, a beautiful German starlet. When an acquaintance from his old communist days approaches him to do some work for the Soviets, Russell is reluctant, but he is unable to resist the offer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Overall great listen!
- De Patricia en 02-28-24
De: David Downing
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The Patriots
- A Novel
- De: Sana Krasikov
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren, George Guidall
- Duración: 22 h y 58 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 87
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 78
Florence Fein grows up in Brooklyn in the 1930s, in a family that is gaining a foothold in the middle class. At City College she becomes engaged politically with the left-leaning student groups, and eventually, in the midst of the Depression, she takes a job with a trade organization that has a position for her in Moscow. There, she falls in love with another expatriate American and has a son. Soon after, Florence is sent to a work camp and her son to an orphanage.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Point of View of characters, past and present collide
- De Angela Adams en 01-29-19
De: Sana Krasikov
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The Good Liar
- A Novel
- De: Nicholas Searle
- Narrado por: Matthew Brenher
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 165
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 150
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 150
Veteran con artist Roy spots an obvious easy mark when he meets Betty, a wealthy widow, online. In no time at all, he's moved into Betty's lovely cottage and is preparing to accompany her on a romantic trip to Europe. Betty's grandson disapproves of their blossoming relationship, but Roy is sure this scheme will be a success. He knows what he's doing. As this remarkable feat of storytelling weaves together Roy's and Betty's futures, it also unwinds their pasts.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Hope the movie is better than the book?
- De S. Smith en 10-17-19
De: Nicholas Searle
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Layover in Dubai
- A Novel
- De: Dan Fesperman
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 10 h y 45 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 196
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 155
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 151
Corporate auditor Sam Keller, careful to a fault, has decided to live it up for a change. And what better spot for business-class hedonism than the boomtown of Dubai, where resort islands materialize from open ocean, fortunes are made overnight, and skiers crisscross the snowy slopes of a shopping mall. But when a colleague is murdered during a night on the town, Sam soon finds himself waist-deep in a bewildering, lethal mix of mobsters, prostitutes, and crooked cops.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Dubai Dubai Doo
- De itinerant en 02-14-12
De: Dan Fesperman
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Stand on Zanzibar
- De: John Brunner, Bruce Sterling - foreword
- Narrado por: Erik Bergmann
- Duración: 21 h y 16 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 339
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 298
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 299
Niblock House is a rising executive at General Technics, one of a few all-powerful corporations. His work is leading General Technics to the forefront of global domination, both in the marketplace and politically - it's about to take over a country in Africa. Donald Hogan is his roommate, a seemingly sheepish bookworm. But Hogan is a spy, and he's about to discover a breakthrough in genetic engineering that will change the world...and kill him. Society is squeezed into hive-living madness by god-like mega computers and mass-marketed psychedelic drugs.
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5 out of 5 stars
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perfect audio experience
- De Darryl en 03-24-14
De: John Brunner, y otros