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...There is plenty of menace in White Fox (Bantam, £18.99/Doubleday, $28), the last volume of Owen Matthews’ outstanding trilogy featuring KGB Lt Col Alexander Vasin....
...Like Lt Col Vasin, Casey Benedict, an undercover journalist, is also focused and obsessive....
...The love scene between Máire and Adetomiwa Edun’s Lt Yolland is a beautiful combination of verbal unintelligibility and emotional clarity....
...The state’s history is littered with water wars, among them the conflicts surrounding Los Angeles’s move to siphon off most of the Owens river last century that inspired the classic 1974 film, Chinatown....
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