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dimbear

(6,271 posts)
8. All of the Mr Moto books by John Marquand.
Tue May 29, 2012, 07:10 PM
May 2012

We start in 1935 and go thru to the early 50's. I assure you the books are nothing like the movies, the books are in fact quite sympathetic to Japan's empire. It gives an eerie feeling to the read, knowing that Marquand was so good a writer, so educated, and so very, very wrong. (Excuse that allusion.)

It crossed my mind that given the immense popularity of the Saturday Evening Post where these first ran, the readers may well have included Eleanor and FDR.

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