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The history channel; New thrillers.(December 6, Zanzibar and In the Hand of Dante)(Brief Article)

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From: The Economist (US)
Date: 20021019
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Three guys walk into a bar, a terrorist, a poet and an admiral...

WHAT do Osama bin Laden, Dante Alighieri and Admiral Yamamoto have in common? Not much on the face of it. But they each appear as characters in three of this autumn's biggest thrillers, which weave their stories around real historical figures and events.

Harry Niles, the wisecracking antihero of Martin Cruz Smith's latest novel, grew up in Japan, the son of American missionaries. He's a cheerfully amoral wheeler-dealer who runs a gin-joint in downtown Tokyo; he can't even imagine living anywhere else. But it ...

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