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Charlie Wilson's Betrayal
      George Crile
Charlie Wilson's War:  the Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History is  two books in one.  The outer story is a quasi-mythological tale of red blooded American boys and girls killing commies in Afghanistan.  The inner story is one of treason, betrayal and the most successful foreign intelligence operation waged against the United States since the Russians penetrated the Manhatten Project More...

Neighbors and Other People
      Douglas Welch
The second volume of the collected writings of Douglas Welch, who lived in a very strange neighborhood in the Seattle area and gossiped about it for years in a column in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.  More...

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