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The private life of Kim Philby : the Moscow years
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The private life of Kim Philby : the Moscow years

by Rufina Filbi, Mikhail Lyubimov, Hayden B. Peake

Written as a letter from a victim to her captor, this novel follows sixteen-year-old Gemma after she is abducted from Bangkok Airport and taken to the desolate Australian Outback, where she must struggle to survive.

Accession 20782 ISBN 088064219X Publisher Fromm International
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