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BOOK REVIEW: Ice Islands

by Humphrey Hawksley, Severn House (Canongate Books), Edinburgh 2022

Apr 29, 2023
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By: John Elliott

Humphrey Hawksley’s diplo thrillers, centered around the wild escapades of Major Rake Ozenna of the elite Eskimo Scouts, always stretch one’s incredulity as this junior James Bond character careers around the world. Sometimes he is a killer for a top Washington DC sleuth and sometimes he is rescuing women in crisis, but he always has a c…

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