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"The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wives will never change. Both are invariably disappointed."

—Bernie Sampson, London Match, 1985, by Len Deighton


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Back in the USSR: Tom Rob Smith

by Oline H. Cogdill

Tom Rob Smith's award-winning trilogy set in the former Soviet Union concludes with the January 2012 release of Agent 6.

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Sequels, Prequels, Pastiches

by Tom Nolan

The new James Bond thriller is only the latest instance of one writer picking up where a predecessor left

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Mary Stewart: Teller of Tales

by Katherine Hall Page

Stewart’s heroines are independent women whose search for truth often leads to love.

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