BOOK REVIEW: Hidden Scorpion by Warren Reed
Intricate tale of spycraft and danger by a former intelligence officer. Pity Sake Publishing, Australia
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Reviewed by Murray Hunter
In the 1980s, with Israel and Egypt in what was called a “cold peace,” the Palestine Liberation Organization at its ill-behaved height, Iraq’s Saddam Hussain in an eight-year war with Iran that took millions of lives and the late Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi a one-man North African wrecking crew, the Australian ambassador to Eg…
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