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  • The Crook Factory

  • By: Dan Simmons
  • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
  • Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (11 ratings)

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By: Dan Simmons
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Summary

At the height of World War II, the famous writer Ernest Hemingway sought permission from the U.S. government to operate a spy ring out of his house in the Cuban countryside. This much is true... It is the summer of ’42 and FBI agent Joe Lucas has come to Cuba at the behest of J. Edgar Hoover to keep an eye on Hemingway. The great writer has assembled a ragtag spy ring that he calls the “Crook Factory” to play a dangerous game of amateur espionage. But then Lucas and Hemingway, against all the odds, uncover a critical piece of intelligence - and the game turns deadly.

In The Crook Factory, award-winning author Dan Simmons expands a little-known fact into a tour de force of gripping historical suspense set in the sensual Cuban landscape of the early 1940s.
©1999 Dan Simmons (P)2011 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
Crime Fiction Historical Suspense
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Great but a bit lengthy

An interesting and entertaining story. As alway, Simmons is an expert on setting a great atmosphere in his books. However, I think that it would benefit from a bit of editing. Some parts become a bit too long which causes the story to loose a bit of momentum. Still, Well worth listening to!

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Wow!

What a fantastic book! Enjoyed every moment. All the more surprising is that it's fiction that is 95% true. Yet another masterpiece by Dan Simmons.

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