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The crook factoryThe crook factory

The crook factory1999

Dan Simmons, Patrick Lawlor

3.3(8)on Hardcover

About this book

It's the summer of 1942, and FBI agent Joe Lucas has come to Cuba at the behest of the Director to keep an eye on Ernest Hemingway in the Caribbean. Lucas thinks of it as a demotion--a babysitting job for a famous writer who has decided to play spy, assembling a team of misfits including an American millionaire, a twelve-year-old Cuban orphan, a Spanish jai alai champion and more in a would-be espionage ring Hemingway dubs the "Crook Factory."

Details

First published
1999
OL Work ID
OL1963252W

Subjects

FictionBiographical fictionSpy storiesFiction, historicalFiction, espionageCuba, fictionFiction, thrillers, generalFiction, historical, generalFiction, thrillers, espionageFiction, biographical

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