Real Spies, Real Lives
By P. A. Duncan
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Where we talk about writing, spies, and writing about spies.
| Episode | Date |
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The Big Four, Plots That Is - Part 1
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Protecting Covert Operatives
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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Plot vs Character
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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Back to Spy-Writing Basics - Archetypes
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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Annus Horribilis
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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The Real Spies, Real Lives Podcast is on Indefinite Hiatus
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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No 10/31/24 Podcast
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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What Could Possibly Go Wrong with a Writer's Browser History?
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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The Writing Life
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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It's the 200th Episode
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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Open Channel D
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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Sun Tzu Says . . .
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Inside the Heads of Spies - Part 2
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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No 9/12/24 Episode
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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Inside the Heads of Spies - Part 1
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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The 5 Most Realistic Spy Movies -- IMHO
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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No Podcast for 8/15/24
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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Celebrity Spies?
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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Why Do Writers Write?
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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Who Won the Cold War? - Part Two
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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Who Won the Cold War? - Part One
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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Wait, There Are Food Spies?
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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And We're Done (with Classified Info)!
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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Mishandling Classified Information - Part 2
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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There's a Reason Why It's Classified
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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Writing from the Rabbit Holes
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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Spying, Spying Everywhere
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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Retreat? Whatever For?
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May 30, 2024 |
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A Mixed Bag of Thoughts
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May 23, 2024 |
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No Podcast on 5/16/24
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May 16, 2024 |
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What Shall We Talk About Today?
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May 09, 2024 |
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The Good, The Bad, The Book Event
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May 02, 2024 |
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How About Some Ungentlemanly Warfare?
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Benjamin Franklin, France, and Spies
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Rage Against the Dying of the Light
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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No Podcast on 4/4/24
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Irons in the Fire
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Sowing Some Discord?
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Welcome to AI -- Maybe
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Building a Mystery
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Secrets, Secrets--Who Has Them? Who Wants Them?
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Vision, Optimism, and Dictators
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Have You Seen Argylle, the Movie?
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Thoughts on THE PIGEON TUNNEL
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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What Makes a Series, Well, a Series?
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Writing About The Troubles in Northern Ireland
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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What's Coming
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Every Story Has a Beginning
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Real Spies Real Lives Podcast is Back!
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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The Spies Will Be Back in January
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Rewriting or Self-Editing?
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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No Podcast for 11/2
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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50,000 Words in 30 Days?
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Backstory
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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What's Next?
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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October Means Sales
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Inspiration Lives On
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Wrapping Up Self-Inflicted Wounds
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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When Truth is Dangerous
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Some Yugoslavian History
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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Winding Up a Promo and More
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Second Guessing
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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Writing as Catharsis
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Slow Horses and the Like
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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Timelines Out of Control?
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Fiction and Reality Merge
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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Historical Fiction Can Be Fun
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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Private Armies, Prigozhin, and Putin
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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A Book Launch is Coming!
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Don't Forget the Deets
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Me, Quit Writing? Never!
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Spy Movies and TV Shows -- Top 5s
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May 25, 2023 |
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Undercover in the CIA?
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May 18, 2023 |
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No Podcast Episode 5/11
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May 11, 2023 |
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The Why of Spy Flash II
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May 04, 2023 |
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Prologue to TREACHERY
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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By Any Other Name . . .
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Old Spies and Old Pilots
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Capturing an Audience
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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3/30 Episode on Hiatus
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Researching Historical Fiction
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Is Espionage Ethical?
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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The Whole of its Parts
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Mystery vs Espionage - More Alike than Not
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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Why Are We So Fascinated with Spies?
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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You Can't Ignore Racism
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Spies and Balloons and Shoot-Downs, Oh My!
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Inspired by Poe
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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Uncomfortable History
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Spies -- At Career Day?
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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A Blast From the Past
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Time for Season Four
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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Taking a Holiday Break
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Getting It Right
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Revenge Abounds
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Art Imitates Life -- Again
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Better Late Than Not at All
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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No 11/4 Podcast
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Finishing up the Series Birthday
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Justice or Injustice
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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When Truth is Dangerous
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Author Backlists - What and Why?
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Baseball and Spies and Life and Writing
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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No Podcast This Week
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Setting as Character
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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Character Development
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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Introducing PROLOGUE TO REVENGE
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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An Emotional Episode
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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Reminder: NO Podcast This Week
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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Prologue to Terror - Part 2
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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Prologue to Terror Part 1
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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Wrapping Up a Book Birthday
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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Vary Your Pattern
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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Stay Within Your Cover
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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You Are Never Completely Alone
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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We Have Met the Enemy . . .
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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Why Do Writers Retreat?
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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REMINDER: No Podcast Today
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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Who Spies on the Spies
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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Suspending Disbelief
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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100th Episode!
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May 26, 2022 |
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Episodic or Serial Series - Who Said This Was Easy?
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May 19, 2022 |
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Public Figures and their Fictional Representations
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May 12, 2022 |
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Fact vs Fiction in Historical Fiction
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May 05, 2022 |
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Sometimes Endings are Hard
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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Femme Fatales and the Woman Spy
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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Why Bad Company?
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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An Old Problem
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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Writer Balance: History vs Sensitivity
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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Real Spies and Family Lives
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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Does Romance Belong in Espionage?
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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Real Spies With Real Lives - What Does it Mean?
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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Everything You Ever (Maybe) Wanted to Know About Author Branding
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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Authorship vs Writing
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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Where's the "Love" in LOVE DEATH
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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Accurate History
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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Symbolism in Writing and Espionage
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Spy Tools, Writer Tools, and a Book Birthday
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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Some Excerpts from the Upcoming Novel, TERROR
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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Taking On Sensitive Historical Events in Fiction
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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What to Expect in 2022
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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The Final Episode of 2021 - Happy Holidays!!!
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Dec 23, 2021 |
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Tying up the Loose Ends - Maybe
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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The Things Mai Fisher Does for a Mission
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Yes, Another Book Birthday
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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No Podcast Today
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Nov 25, 2021 |
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Concluding the Book Birthday Celebration for DANGEROUS TRUTHS
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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More Readings from DANGEROUS TRUTHS
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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Happy Book Birthday to DANGEROUS TRUTHS
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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We're All Done Celebrating WELCOME TO BELGRADE
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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Another Reading from WELCOME TO BELGRADE
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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More from WELCOME TO BELGRADE
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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Happy Book Birthday to WELCOME TO BELGRADE
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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Wrapping up THE BETTER SPY!
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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The Conclusion of THE BETTER SPY
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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You Always Were THE BETTER SPY
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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Finishing Up BLOOD VENGEANCE
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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The Podcast is Back!
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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Oops! Another Delay
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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No Podcast This Week
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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Winding up A CHANGE FOR THE BETTER
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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More Novellas
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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An Introduction to an Upcoming Trilogy
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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Concluding Our Look at The Moscow Rules
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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"Pick the Time and Place for Action"
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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"Lull Them Into A Sense of Complacency"
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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Vary Your Pattern/Stay Within Your Cover
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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"Don't Look Back; You're Never Completely Alone"
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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"Everyone is Potentially Under Opposition Control"
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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"Never Go Against Your Gut"
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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Assume Nothing
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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Winding up MY NOBLE ENEMY
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May 27, 2021 |
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Another Novella!
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May 20, 2021 |
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How THE YELLOW SCARF Got Its Title
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May 13, 2021 |
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What's a Novella?
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May 06, 2021 |
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Concluding a Look Back at A PERFECT HATRED
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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Revisiting Descending Spiral
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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Revisiting Bad Company
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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Revisiting A Perfect Hatred
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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Reading from a WIP Plus a Movie Review
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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The Conclusion to A War of Deception
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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Real Spy Results vs Fiction
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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More from A War of Deception
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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A Trip Back in Time
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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A New Novel and Spycraft
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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Love Death and ... Sexpionage
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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Nearing the End
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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Planning and Spycraft
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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Going Off Topic
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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Always Good To Have A Plan
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Jan 21, 2021 |
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Approaches and Pitches
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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New Year, New Mission
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Jan 07, 2021 |
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Out With the Old...At Last!
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Dec 31, 2020 |
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Old Spies Don't Die...Until They Do
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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Character Origins
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Dec 10, 2020 |
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The Trilogy Concludes
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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The Last Mission?
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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Improvising
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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The Beginning of the End...of the Trilogy
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Nov 05, 2020 |
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We Reach the End of Book Two
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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Plausible Deniability and Dangerous Truths
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Oct 22, 2020 |
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A Fateful Encounter
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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The Plot Thickens
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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Dangerous Truths
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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A Cliffhanger!
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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Let's End This on a Cliffhanger
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weave...
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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Deception Shouldn't Surprise a Spy
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Sep 03, 2020 |
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Small Talk
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Aug 27, 2020 |
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He is Finished!
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Aug 20, 2020 |
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When Protesting Made a Difference
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Aug 13, 2020 |
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Introducing a Reader Magnet for a New Trilogy
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Aug 06, 2020 |
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Absolute Power Can Corrupt--or Not
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Jul 30, 2020 |
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Revenge is a Dish Best Served Cold
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Jul 23, 2020 |
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Manipulation--It's What Spies Do
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Jul 16, 2020 |
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"Spymaster"
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Jul 09, 2020 |
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Second Guessing the Second Guessing
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Jul 02, 2020 |
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When is History History?
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Jun 25, 2020 |
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The Lure of Historical Fiction
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Jun 18, 2020 |
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The Dark Side of Writing Thrillers Remix
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Jun 12, 2020 |
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Real Spies, Real Lives (Trailer)
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Jun 11, 2020 |