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Did J. Edgar Hoover die a natural death? Or was he murdered? When a group of high-minded and high-placed intellectuals known as Inver Brass detect a monstrous threat to the country in Hoover’s unethical use of his scandal-ridden private files, they decide to do away with him—quietly, efficiently, with no hint of impropriety.
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Grave, classical in form, relentless and unpretentious.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Robert Ludlum
- First published
- January 1920
- Pages
- 464
- Publisher
- Bompiani, Dial Press, Bantam Books
- Editions
- 18
- Language
- Russian, English, Italian, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780803712744
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Robert Ludlum was an American author of 25 thriller novels. The number of his books in print is estimated between 290-500 million copies. They have been published in 33 languages and 40 countries. Ludlum also published books under the pseudonyms Jonathan Ryder and Michael Shepherd.<sup>[1][1]</sup> [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ludlum
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