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#tlt #threelistthursday @dabbe
dabbe Ya beat me by one! 🤩 Thanks for playing and sharing. 🎬🍿📽️ 1w
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pickCharming and chilling by turns.
What grabbed me is that it isn't a breathless tour of past exploits, derring-do, it's this well-spoken, self-effacing honest look at a bunch of moments the author decided might be interesting to the reader.
Carre(Cornwell) acknowledges his Service record, rather than slyly alluding to it, and sets out in the very beginning how much he will not be revealing and the reasons why. 1/?
Oh yeah, if this is the way he writes non-fiction, I'm definitely going to end up trying his novels.
pickCompletely fascinating book about Area 51, which the US has never acknowledged, and the nuclear and airplane research and testing that have occurred there. This gives insight into where UFO conspiracy theories may have originated. I do take it with a grain of salt, though, given that some of the information isn‘t truly verifiable.
pickLane & Ins.Darling are planning their wedding when an elderly Russian lady appears searching for her brother. Lane,who speaks Russian, invites her to stay in her home While Darling & new constable initiate a search for her brother, a hunter is found murdered. although LaneLaney desperately wants to escape her past,it rears its head again when she‘s contacted by a British agent to alert her that a Russian spy is headed to Canada. #serieslove2025 ⬇️
This book is well written and tells a compelling story, striking a balance between avoiding the dull and dry procedural elements & not turning the spy craft elements into a Bond/Bourne parody. Nonetheless it was hard for me to read at times.
As a #longtimefed I‘ve never been a big fan of real life espionage stories, but it hits differently at this stage in history. That‘s probably about the finest point I can put on it or need to put on it…
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Beatriz Perez has two goals with the same solution: she wants to work with the CIA to assassinate Fidel Castro. The novel follows Beatriz in the 1960s as she becomes deeper enmeshed in American politics and espionage.
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