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Portraits and recipes of the greats, and the treasure train, and more on. Except for the three and a half years he served in the pacific theatre during world war ii, he spent most of his life in new york state. He owned a property on lake erie he remained littleknown by the public, in the united states as well as abroad. See all books authored by bob young, including jazz cooks. Category spybiography to enjoy this book and get the most out of it the reader must have some knowledge of harold philby. Robert franklin young june 8, 1915 june 22, 1986 was an american science fiction writer born in silver creek, new york. Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. We see him as a young man in vienna during a rightwing purge, encountering the seductive communist litzi friedman whom he is to. Just as kim philby betrayed james angleton, his cia confidant.
Robert littell, american novelist and journalist, was born on the 8th january 1935 in brooklyn, new york. Young philby as the title suggests is a sort of origin story. Young philby, by robert littell, a spy novel that combines. The bullet is linked to the soviets and, dodging the cia, he hunts her killers in czechoslovakia.
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