Robert Ludlum 1966
- What it is
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Spies, moles and state secrets · it's hiding a secret
- Genre
- Thriller Crime
- Feels
- Mysterious Dark Adventurous Tense
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It's hiding a secret · it gets under your skin
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The truth comes out bit by bit · a world to get lost in
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The truth comes out bit by bit · it ties your stomach in a knot
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The truth comes out bit by bit · it ties your stomach in a knot
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A mystery you want to solve · it stirs you up inside
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A mystery you want to solve · no clean hands here
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It's hiding a secret · nobody is entirely good
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It grabs you with a mystery · a threat that keeps growing
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You need to know how it ends · you end up rooting for the wrong people
Verity
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It grabs you with a mystery · properly scary
Six wakes
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It grabs you with a mystery · it messes with your head
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You need to know how it ends · you end up rooting for the wrong people
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The truth comes out bit by bit · it ties your stomach in a knot
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You need to know how it ends · you end up rooting for the wrong people
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It grabs you with a mystery · it messes with your head
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Damascus Station
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Readers put them together in Spy novels where nobody gets out clean
Spy Who Came in from the Cold
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A reader shelved it with yours in Spy novels where nobody gets out clean
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Only the plot drives it
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One more chapter, then another · fierce and defiant
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It'll scare you · you'll keep turning it over for days
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