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Hi and

welcome to SpyCast from the Secret Files of the International Spy Museum in

Washington, D.C.

I'm Dr. Vint Houghton, the Museum's historian and curator.

Every week, Spycast brings you interesting conversation. Hottin, the Museum's Historian and Curator.

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We're joined today by four authors who have all come from very different professional

backgrounds and who all turn that into very different kinds of fiction.

But what they have all in common and the reason we ask them all here today is that they all do it very well.

So I'm going to introduce them but not their

full introductions because man these are some accomplished authors. It would take

half the time to introduce all of them the full thing. So you're going to get

a gist of who these people are.

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