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the constant gardener by john le carre

reading this long british spy drama is an exercise in verisimilitude - one feels, with each patient, slow, wonderfully written page, that one is joining the story, or at least helping create it, a story which, like life, plods along at its own inexorable pace, bringing one with it, teaching harsh lessons the whole way. 

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