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The Novelist Who Spied: How Dennis Wheatley Helped Defeat the Nazis

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There have been plenty of spies who took up writing, but during World War II Britain’s most popular thriller writer was asked to help deceive the Germans and he did so spectacularly. Tina Rosenberg tells his remarkable story in D for Deception.

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