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This installment is called The Twentyth Day of January

My friend Josh has one of the best job titles in the world.

He is a semiotic brand analyst.

And his work takes him all over the country, all over the world. On the

side as a hobby for several years now he's been running hi-lowbrow.com where

he's been blogging about his favorite adventure novels

treasure hunt adventures crime thrillers war novels which led him to the

discovery of the nerdy world of spy novel book clubs every time I go on a business trip I try to sit in the spy novel excuse me espionage thriller that's the preferred term book club in that city and what's really great about these

clubs is I meet a lot of interesting people from all walks of life and I learn all

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