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5.0 out of 5 stars
Back Cover Copy, Jul 14 2004
Irving Wallace at his best! A book for those who wonder if the world has any surprises yet.With Wallace, author of The Prize and The Man, you will Travel on the Orient Express, the world's most exciting, glamorous, and dangerous train... Visit the most sinful, celebrated, and luxurious brothel in America (run by two genteel Southern Belles) where Congressmen and royalty spend their vacations... Enter the German prison where four nations have 30 armed guards to watch over one lone criminal... Meet the head of the Japanese Geisha Guild, a labor union unlike any other on earth... See first-hand the French detective who catches murderers through specks of dust, the Dutch art forger who made three millions painting Vermeers, the Spanish marquis who labeled Hemingway "a fraud..." And finally, pay a moving visit to a very special room in the White House - John F. Kennedy's Oval Office - nine weeks before Dallas.
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