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I'm about halfway through Obscura by Joe Hart, the only book on my hundreds-of-books-long TBR list that seems to qualify for the regular mode center square for bingo. It's a fast read, as one would hope for a scifi thriller, but the badly done science keeps making me grumble and put it down.
I also started A Case of Mice and Murder by Sally Smith, which is fun so far.
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Finished Call for the Dead by John le Carré (Cold War spy murder mystery) | bingo: different continent, war, motion picture, short, political
When a routine security interview results in suicide, a secret service agent investigates the death with the help of a retired inspector.
Le Carré's debut novel. I found it a little clunky and poorly aged in a couple of places, but thoroughly enjoyable overall. Smiley's just fun to read, I think.