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Agents of Innocence by David Ignatius

This is a carefully written and researched spy thriller but it can’t decide if it wants to be a history or a fiction; as a result the fiction aspect suffers from a lack of style, while the history aspect suffers from a lack of real names - it’s clearly about Ames and Salameh but it didn’t have to be. 

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