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Content includes books from bestselling, midlist and debut authors. Istanbul passage is a spy thriller set in that city in 1945. The action takes place in late 1945, with the war over and the city reverting to normal even as. Cold war, fiction general, fiction suspense, americans, fiction, intelligence. Istanbul passage ebook by joseph kanon 9781439164822.
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