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Sometime spy Evan Tanner has accepted impossible assignments for many reasons: money, thrills, to have something to occupy his waking hours (twenty-four of them every day, in fact, since battlefield shrapnel obliterated his brain's sleep center). But this might be the first time he's put his... read more

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On my third day in Athens I sat at a small square table at the airport cafe watching a sleek Air India jet taxi down the runway, rise abruptly into the air, then break cloud cover and disappear from view.

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This is book 3 of 10 in Evan Tanner. (standard series)

Preceded by The Canceled Czech, and followed by Two for Tanner.

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  1. Lawrence Block (Author)

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Publication Date: 1967
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