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A Timeless Spy Thriller From Eastern Europe

William Maz’s Cold War-era 'Bucharest Dossier' eerily evokes today's crisis with Russia

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Peter Eisner
Apr 20, 2022
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William Maz’s debut spy novel, The Bucharest Dossier, takes us back to the last Cold War and the decline of Soviet dominance of Eastern Europe some three decades ago. The good old days? Not at all, the issues are eerily similar to what’s going on in the power play between Russia and the United States today. And that’s not good.

In this intriguing and coi…

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