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Every weekend I take an ATV out into the desert and spend a day tracing a faint "(C) GOOGLE 2009" watermark across the landscape.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3173/
this post was submitted on 26 Nov 2025
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You sound like a fellow espionage geek.
Two recommendations.
TURN : George Washington's Spies. Doesn't turn away from things like Washington owning slaves and the British freeing them, and it has lots of cute tricks, like a one-man submarine and secret writing on egg shells. AMC show.
Any of the WW2 spy novels by Alan Furst. "Night Soldiers" is about a Bulgarian fisherman whose brother was killed by a Fascist mob. He gets recruited into the KGB and fights in Spain.
if i'm new to Furst, should i start on Night Soldiers or somewhere else?
All his books are standalones.
For some reason, a publisher put numbers on them, but that has nothing to do with the stories.
Enjoy