Word: doublecross
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doublecross? Turnabout is fair play...
Latin Americans are stunned by the American doublecross. The U.S. has forfeited its right to be a member of the Organization of American States. Reconciliation with Latin America will take an eternity. Neutrality would have been a much wiser attitude...
After 45 years in thriller country, Eric Ambler is still the master of murk. Ironic, cerebral, smooth as vintage port, he has created an all-too-familiar world of doublecross and blackmail where the heroes are unheroic and the villains almost likable. The Care of Time is quintessential Ambler from the very first sentence: "The warning message arrived on Monday, the bomb itself on Wednesday. It became a busy week...