Cold WarriorsIn this brilliant account of the literary war within the Cold War, novelists and poets become embroiled in a dangerous game of betrayal, espionage, and conspiracy at the heart of the vicious conflict fought between the Soviet Union and the West During the Cold War, literature was both sword and noose. Novels, essays, and poems could win the hearts and minds of those caught between the competing creeds of capitalism and communism. They could also lead

it was just another day at the office

Nate Townsend is undeniably attractive

Lymstock is a town with more than its share of scandalous secrets—a town where even a sudden outbreak of anonymous hate mail causes only a minor stir

of his throne

eager to succeed

and feature one of the most charismatic and incorrigible characters of fiction

Amelia Bedelia gets to work on a huge

Earth is uninhabitable

But everything changes when one of those calls connects her to a stranger from small-town Ohio

someone seems determined to reopen old wounds

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and every secret