The Crook Factory
Author: Dan Simmons
It is the summer of ’42 and FBI agent Joe Lucas has come to Cuba at the behest of J. Edgar Hoover to keep an eye on Ernest Hemingway, who has recklessly decided to play spy in the Caribbean. Lucas has been instructed to somehow gain the great writer’s trust and friendship, but all the agent’s cool intellect and training have left him unprepared to withstand the human whirl….Read More
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