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Robert littell is the author of seventeen previous novels, most recently young philby. The hunt begins for lemuel gunns most vicious and elusive quarry. Now, hes turned his formidable skills towards crime fiction in a nasty piece of work, a novel that has echoes of the great raymond chandler. Robert littell has 35 books on goodreads with 24057 ratings. Read a nasty piece of work a novel by robert littell available from rakuten kobo. In his spare time, he is an amateur mountain climber.

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