You're listening to All the Backlist, a weekly show about books that are not new.

I'm your host for the week, Trisha Brown, and this is episode number 489.5.

So if you have listened to the last few episodes that I've hosted, you know that I have

been pretty current events heavy lately, and I promised that in November, we would do something

different, take a little break from that.

I don't know about you, but I am probably even more ready for that break than I thought

I would be.

So we are taking it, and I'm going to talk about two of my favorite books with happy endings.

In case, that's a thing that you are looking for for any reason at all this month.

I'll tell you more about both of them in just a minute.

Honestly, they are also books that are at least for me, escapist. And I don't always love describing books that

way because I think the word escapist can be used to diminish them. But these are both good,

fun books that also provide an escape. I will explain all of that a little bit better. At least I

will try right after the break.

Today's episode is brought to you by Harper Select, publisher of Ghosts of Panama.

Now, this is a book you want to pick up if you were like me back in the day or currently watching NCIS. This is like a real NCIS story. So using a blend of research and

interviews with the NIS agents who were directly

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placed in a pressure cooker assignment of historic proportions. This true life NCIS story from

bestselling authors Mark Hammond and Leon Carroll Jr. follows Naval Intelligence

agents working the most dangerous beat in the world in the late 1980s and how they struggle to

penetrate a dictator's organization and protect their families. Narrated by Harmon and Carol,

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