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A gripping selection includes cold war conspiracies and a dark turn for Scottish politics
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Cold war era novels inspired by the long, deadly reach of Moscow’s secret service
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An exodus from Moscow; undercover in central Russia; a network of agents in wartime Berlin; and a hitman with a heart
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