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Awk_Word_Smith
Ascension | Oliver Harris
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Pickpick

Very enjoyable espionage thriller. I figured out the twist about 2/3rds into the book, but a fun read nonetheless. Will definitely be going back to read the first in this series, but first…

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

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Awk_Word_Smith
Ascension | Oliver Harris
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Didn‘t realize it was No. 2 in a series until I was knee-deep and could not turn back. 🤣

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rachelk
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This was probably a more realistic spy novel than ‘The Spy Who Came in from the Cold‘ but I preferred the drama and romance of that novel over so much of the day to day training in this one. I did like this enough to pick — it is well written and devastating in its own way.

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andrew61
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The first 70 odd pages are very slow going but once into the narrative about how yng actress Charlie is recruited into an undercover plot to catch the head of a pro Palestinian bombing cell the storytelling starts to improve. It's not my favourite Le Carre but an interesting shift away from the Cold War storytelling + particularly pertinent as the Middle East is the centre of the news every day. Looking forward now to watching the BBC series

CarolynM I read this a long time ago and really liked it. I was a Rock Follies fan and was intrigued by Charlie being inspired by his sister, Charlotte Cornwall. 2mo
andrew61 @CarolynM I didn't know that Carolyn, a great bit of info. I haven't seen the TV version yet but had florence pugh in my mind . 2mo
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LaurenAsh
Absolute Friends | John le Carre
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Absolute Friends with my absolute friend.

dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 2mo
PaperbackPirate 😍💙🐕‍🦺 2mo
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Trace
Mehso-so

Strong ending.

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Bookwomble
Kiss My Assassin | Rod Gray
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I would buy this book purely for the title 😂

It's part of a James Bond spoof, sexploitation spy series from the '60s/'70s, pseudonymously written by prolific pulp & DC Comics writer, Gardner Fox. It's clear from the other titles & blurbs that these are horrendously misogynistic & racist and, presumably, samey.
The MC is an agent of L.U.S.T. named Eve Drum, code number Oh-Oh-Sex: it took me a minute to realise that you 💥 a 🥁🙄

Graywacke Very entertaining post! 🙂 4mo
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Reecaspieces
Kennedy 35 | Charles Cumming
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Yuki_Onna
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BookwormAHN Cool 🐈‍⬛️ 5mo
BookwormAHN I'm not sure where you live, but here in the States, the travel Channel has a show called Mysteries of the Abandoned, which I think you would like. 5mo
Yuki_Onna @BookwormAHN Thank you for the suggestion! 👏
I live in Germany - in the south, though, and had not been to Berlin for the last ten years or so...
Well, most US TV shows make their way over the pond to Germany sooner or later, so there's a fair chance I'll come across it sometime.
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Eggs This reminds me of History channel series many years ago 100 years after humans or something like that. Speculative but amazing! I‘m definitely going to check out The Abandoned @Yuki_Onna @BookwormAHN 5mo
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Yuki_Onna
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Graffiti in the Lost Place area in Berlin, the Teufelsberg (German for Devil's Mountain). It used to be a US listening station in West Berlin during the Cold War.
Visited last week.

#AutumnPlease #photochallenge #lost & #bones
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
#Scarathlon #bones #orange & #legend
@BookwormAHN @5feet.of.fury @BeckyWithTheGoodBooks @hes7 @LibrarianRyan @Read-y_Picker @TEArificbooks @TheBookDream @TheQuietQuill #blackcatcrew

BookwormAHN Cool 🐈‍⬛ 5mo
Eggs Awesome 🎃🎃. My brother may have “listened” there for USAF around 1965…He was a Voice Intercept Processor 5mo
Yuki_Onna @Eggs What?! How fascinating is that?👏 5mo
Eggs @Yuki_Onna 🙌🏻 5mo
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