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A joy to read a story about spies that has lots of women in active roles.'\u003c\/b\u003e CATHY RENTZENBRINK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A fascinating story, so cleverly told, of the long chain of people who helped to bring Pasternak's masterpiece into the world. I gulped it down.' \u003c\/b\u003eGILL HORNBY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The insight into the workings of the CIA, the portrait of the 1950s and a threatened love affair in the West ... make for riveting reading.'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eDAILY MAIL\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Triumphant ... 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