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Hi, this is William Ramsey.

Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates on today's show of a very special guest.

Her name is Charlotte Dennett, and she just published a book this year, 2022.

The title of the book that we're going to discuss is follow the pipelines,

uncovering the mystery of a lost spy and the deadly politics of the great game for oil.

And really a fascinating book, and it ties into some of the

some earlier books that i've interviewed the authors within the last 12 months those two books

and you can go back and listen to those are spies and traders kim philby james angleton and the

friendship and brutorial that would shape m i6 the cia in the Cold War. That's Michael Holtzman.

And then also Anne Tazewell put out a kind of a CIA memoir about her dad.

A good spy leaves no trace, big oil CIA secrets, and the spies' daughter's reckoning.

And so I suggest people go listen to those as well after finish and listening to this one.

Charlotte has Charlotte Dennett has published other books.

She published in 2017, I Will Be Done, The Conquest of the Amazon, Nelson, Nelson Rockefeller, and Evangelism in the Age of Oil.

And then in 2010, the People v. Bush, one lawyer's campaign to bring the president to justice in the national grassroots movement she encounters along the way. And that was 2010. But again, the title of the book we're going to talk about today is follow the pipelines and covering the mystery of a loss spy and deadly politics is the great game for oil. And it ties in, I think, very important to current events in Eastern Europe and Russia and the energy crisis that we're experiencing now. Energy was definitely an issue in the historical

aspects of this book and in the different sections where she covers how important oil became

post-war in what she calls the great game.

So Charlotte Dennett, welcome to the show.

Hey, great to be here.

Looking forward to our discussion.

Great.

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