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In each generation there are individuals who live at the center of and help develop the principal themes of the age. Though many of these people are not widely known, their lives are exemplary and their influence among a generation`s leaders is profound. Pierre Delattre has been, since the 1950s, one of these people, a voyager who remains in the vanguard. Episodes consists of distilled moments of autobiography: Delattre has captured the humor, the edge and the sudden illuminations of the defining moments of his life and his generation. These are tales of his encounters with Albert Schweitzer, Richard Brautigan, Charles de Gaulle, the Dalai Lama, and Neal Cassady, and of his ministerial work running a North Beach landmark; the Bread and Wine Mission, during the beat/hippy golden age. These are mystical cautionary tales by a humorist whose focus is on how superbly the divine is expressed in the ordinary. Delattre is a bit the philosopher, but more the theologian.
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English expatriate Wormold, who sells vacuum cleaners in Havana, becomes entangled in British government affairs at the beginning of the story and is pressed into service as an operative of M.I.5. He agrees reluctantly, so as to earn some extra money for his 17-year-old daughter's education, but does not bother to engage in any actual espionage. Instead, he submits wholly fictitious reports that are taken seriously at Whitehall and foment an elaborate diplomatic crisis in Havana. In the end, Wormold finds that his imaginary maneuvers take on a life of their own.
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Nicholas Bryson, a retired American intelligence operative, has just discovered that his entire career was a lie. The Directorate--the shadowy organization for which he worked--was actually an elaborate anti-American spy operation, and he was an unwitting pawn. Now, the CIA wants Bryson to infiltrate the Directorate and find out who is pulling the strings. Bryson's former colleagues and loved ones become his mortal enemies, as he follows a trail that leads him to one of Seattle's richest computer billionaires.
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