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Overview

In Olen Steinhauer’s explosive New York Times bestseller, Milo Weaver has tried to leave his old life of secrets and lies behind by giving up his job as a “tourist” for the CIA—an undercover agent with no home, no identity—and working a desk at the CIA’s New York headquarters. But staying retired from the field becomes impossible when the arrest of a long-sought-after assassin sets off an investigation into one of Milo’s oldest colleagues and friends. With new layers of intrigue being exposed in his old cases, he has no choice but to go back undercover and find out who’s been pulling the strings once and for all.

In The Tourist, Olen Steinhauer—twice nominated for the Edgar Award—tackles an intricate story of betrayal and manipulation, loyalty and risk, in an utterly compelling novel that is both thoroughly modern and yet also reminiscent of the espionage genre’s most touted luminaries.

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The old adage "CIA agents never retire, they just take temporary leave" rings loud and clear in this novel about a veteran spy called back to service. Milo Weaver had hoped that his days out in the field were over; he had settled into a quiet life in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter and a routine job at the Agency's New York headquarters. That soothing monotony ends, however, with the long-overdue arrest of a professional assassin whose past history is deeply entangled with Milo and his former associates. To sort out the troubling threads, Weaver goes underground.

Janet Maslin

The lazy writer of espionage plots need only concoct a world-weary agent and then send him through a string of perilous escapades. Mr. Steinhauer does something much more interesting. Rather than merely describe Milo Weaver's dizzying exploits, he replicates them; he immerses his reader in the same kind of uncertainty that Milo faces at every turn…Mr. Steinhauer…who can be legitimately mentioned alongside John le Carre…displays a high degree of what Mr. le Carre's characters like to call tradecraft. If he's as smart as The Tourist makes him sound, he'll bring back Milo Weaver for a curtain call.
—The New York Times

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Patrick Anderson

Much of the time, neither we nor Weaver has much idea what's going on, but we keep reading because he is likable—a mess but still the most honorable man in view—and because Steinhauer seems to know the world of spies and assassins all too well. In his telling, it's a nasty, duplicitous world, but it feels real…The Tourist is serious entertainment that raises interesting questions.
—The Washington Post

Publishers Weekly

Edgar-finalist Steinhauer takes a break from his crime series set in an unnamed Eastern European country under Communist rule (Liberation Movements, etc.) to deliver an outstanding stand-alone, a contemporary spy thriller. Milo Weaver used to be a "tourist," one of the CIA's special field agents without a home or a name. Six years after leaving that career, Milo has found a certain amount of satisfaction as a husband and a father and with a desk job at the CIA's New York headquarters. The arrest of an international hit man and a meeting with a former colleague yank Milo back into his old role, from which retirement is never really possible. While plenty of breathtaking scenes in the world's most beautiful places bolster the heart-stopping action, the real story is the soul-crushing toil the job inflicts on a person who can't trust anyone, whose life is a lie fueled by paranoia. George Clooney's company has bought the film rights with the actor slated to star and produce. 100,000 first printing; author tour. (Mar.)

Library Journal

Superbly accomplished at both plotting and characterization, Steinhauer, in a change of pace from his series of Eastern European thrillers (e.g., The Bridge of Sights; Victory Square), offers an emotionally damaged protagonist who is an experienced spy or "tourist" but now a family man and desk-bound agent of the post-9/11, scandal-ridden CIA. When Milo Weaver is called back to fieldwork and assigned to capture an international assassin, it sets off an investigation into one of Milo's colleagues. The story is long and complicated but compelling and hard to put down. As is true of the better spy novels, the theme here is betrayal. Forays into blind alleys, puzzling clues, lapses of judgment, narrow escapes, and ingenious attainment of objectives establish Milo as a skilled operative performing difficult tasks while being systematically deceived by compatriots and adversaries. Accepting the contemporary story as potentially realistic, readers are led into hoping that their country's intelligence-gathering leadership is actually in better hands-and performing for less venal reasons-than the novel suggests. Appropriately, this story includes a full measure of cynicism, very little humor, and a tender conclusion. Highly recommended for all public libraries.
—Jonathan Pearce

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In his latest thriller, Steinhauer (Victory Square, 2007, etc.) ventures into the darkest corners of the CIA and finds the place full of antiheroes. Milo Weaver is a CIA legend, a member in terrific standing of an elite undercover operation known as the Tourists, until, inevitably-no one ever stays a Tourist forever-he runs out of courage. This happens on the streets of Venice during a shootout. He takes a couple of bullets in the chest, survives and recovers and, subsequently, elects to burrow into the bureaucracy. Soon he's spending most of his time jockeying a desk at CIA headquarters in New York. He has a wife and daughter that he adores, and he is content indeed to have come in from the cold. But then, six years later, on a day much like any other, there's the life-altering phone call. It's from his boss, about the Tiger, with whom Milo has long had a special, peculiarly respectful relationship. Ferocious as the animal he's nicknamed for, the Tiger is also maddeningly elusive, but now he seems to be languishing in jail, caught by a small-town sheriff. Milo is dispatched to identify him. And so it begins anew-the perilous, labyrinthine journey replete with unforeseen way stations and a multiplicity of secret agendas, all of them dark, many of them potentially lethal. Milo will find himself a murder suspect. His family will be endangered. Implacable enemies will pursue him, and friends will betray him. In the end, "a strand of Tourist philosophy" will seem to apply-that hope is counterproductive, an illusion. But maybe, just maybe, he'll hope anyway. A little too talky, a little too convoluted to rank among Steinhauer's very best. Still, only le Carre can make a spy as interesting.First printing of 100,000. Film rights to George Clooney's Smokehouse Pictures with Clooney to star and produce

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ISBN-13: 9780312374877
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 2/16/2010
Edition description: First Edition
Edition number: 1
Pages: 432
Sales rank: 52,352
Series: Milo Weaver Series , #1
Product dimensions: 5.30 (w) x 8.10 (h) x 1.30 (d)

Meet the Author

Olen Steinhauer

Olen Steinhauer is the author of the bestselling Milo Weaver series, including The Nearest Exit, and a series of widely acclaimed Eastern European crime novels, which include The Bridge of Sighs, The Confession, 36 Yalta Boulevard, Liberation Movements, and Victory Square. He is a two-time Edgar Award finalist and has been shortlisted for the Anthony, the Macavity, the Ellis Peters Historical Dagger, and the Barry awards. Raised in Virginia, Steinhauer lives with his family in Budapest, Hungary.

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The TOURIST

OLEN STEINHAUER

The END of TOURISM

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, TO TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2001

Four hours after his failed suicide attempt, he descended toward Aerodrom Ljubljana. A tone sounded, and above his head the seat belt sign glowed. Beside him, a Swiss businesswoman buckled her belt and gazed out the window at the clear Slovenian sky—all it had taken was one initial rebuff to convince her that the twitching American she’d been seated next to had no interest in conversation.

The American closed his eyes, thinking about the morning’s failure in Amsterdam—gunfi re, shattering glass and splintered wood, sirens.

If suicide is sin, he thought, then what is it to someone who doesn’t believe in sin? What is it then? An abomination of nature? Probably, because the one immutable law of nature is to continue existing. Witness: weeds, cockroaches, ants, and pigeons. All of nature’s creatures work to a single, unifi ed purpose: to stay alive. It’s the one indisputable theory of everything.

He’d dwelled on suicide so much over the last months, had examined the act from so many angles, that it had lost its punch. The infinitive clause “to commit suicide” was no more tragic than “to eat breakfast” or “to sit,” and the desire to snuff himself was often as strong as his desire “to sleep.”

Sometimes it was a passive urge—drive recklessly without a seat belt; walk blindly into a busy street—though more frequently these days he was urged to take responsibility for his own death. “The Bigger Voice,” his mother would have called it: There’s the knife; you know what to do. Open the window and try to fl y. At four thirty that morning, while he lay on top of a woman in Amsterdam, pressing her to the fl oor as her bedroom window exploded from automatic gunfire, the urge had suggested he stand straight and proud and face the hail of bullets like a man.

He’d spent the whole week in Holland, watching over a sixtyyear-old U.S.- supported politician whose comments on immigrationvhad put a contract on her head. The hired assassin, a killer who in certain circles was known only as “the Tiger,” had that morning made a third attempt on her life. Had he succeeded, he would have derailed that day’s Dutch House of Representatives vote on her conservative immigration bill.

How the continued existence of one politician—in this case, a woman who had made a career of catering to the whims of frightened farmers and bitter racists—played into the hands of his own country was unknown to him. “Keeping an empire,” Grainger liked to tell him, “is ten times more diffi cult than gaining one.”

Rationales, in his trade, didn’t matter. Action was its own reason. But, covered in glass shards, the woman under him screaming over the crackling sound, like a deep fryer, of the window frame splintering, he’d thought, What am I doing here? He even placed a hand fl at on the wood- chip- covered carpet and began to push himself up again, to face this assassin head- on. Then, in the midst of all that noise, he heard the happy music of his cell phone. He removed his hand from the fl oor, saw that it was Grainger calling, and shouted into it, “What?”

“Riverrun, past Eve,” Tom Grainger said. “And Adam’s.” Learned Grainger had created go- codes out of the fi rst lines of novels. His own Joycean code told him he was needed someplace new. But nothing was new anymore. The unrelenting roll call of cities and hotel rooms and suspicious faces that had constituted his life for too many years was stupefying in its tedium. Would it never stop?

So he hung up on his boss, told the screaming woman to stay where she was, and climbed to his feet . . . but didn’t die. The bullets had ceased, replaced by the whining sirens of Amsterdam’s finest. “Slovenia,” Grainger told him later, as he drove the politician safely to the Tweede Kamer. “Portorož, on the coast. We’ve got a vanished suitcase of taxpayer money and a missing station chief. Frank Dawdle.”

“I need a break, Tom.”

“It’ll be like a vacation. Angela Yates is your contact—she works out of Dawdle’s offi ce. A familiar face. Afterward, stay around and enjoy the water.”

As Grainger droned on, outlining the job with minimal details, his stomach had started to hurt, as it still did now, a sharp pain. If the one immutable law of existence is to exist, then does that make the opposite some sort of crime?

No. Suicide- as- crime would require that nature recognize good and evil. Nature only recognizes balance and imbalance. Maybe that was the crucial point—balance. He’d slipped to some secluded corner of the extremes, some far reach of utter imbalance. He was a ludicrously unbalanced creature. How could nature smile upon him? Nature, surely, wanted him dead, too.

“Sir?” said a bleached, smiling stewardess. “Your seat belt.”

He blinked at her, confused. “What about it?”

“You need to wear it. We’re landing. It’s for your safety.”

Though he wanted to laugh, he buckled it just for her. Then he reached into his jacket pocket, took out a small white envelope full of pills he’d bought in Düsseldorf, and popped two Dexedrine. To live or die was one issue; for the moment, he just wanted to stay alert.

Suspiciously, the Swiss businesswoman watched him put away his drugs.

The pretty, round- faced brunette behind the scratched bulletproof window watched him approach. He imagined he knew what she noticed—how big his hands were, for example. Piano- player hands.

The Dexedrine was making them tremble, just slightly, and if she noticed it she might wonder if he was unconsciously playing a sonata.

He handed over a mangled American passport that had crossed more borders than many diplomats. A touring pianist, she might think. A little pale, damp from the long fl ight he’d just fi nished. Bloodshot eyes. Aviatophobia—fear of fl ying—was probably her suspicion. He managed a smile, which helped wash away her expression of bureaucratic boredom. She really was very pretty, and he wanted her to know, by his expression, that her face was a nice Slovenian welcome.

The passport gave her his particulars: fi ve foot eleven. Born June 1970—thirty- one years old. Piano player? No—American passportsdon’t list occupations. She peered up at him and spoke in her unsure accent: “Mr. Charles Alexander?”

He caught himself looking around again, paranoid, and gave another smile. “That’s right.”

“You are here for the business or the tourism?”

“I’m a tourist.”

She held the open passport under a black light, then raised a stamp over one of the few blank pages. “How long will you be in Slovenia?”

Mr. Charles Alexander’s green eyes settled pleasantly on her. “Four days.”

“For vacation? You should spend at least a week. There is many things to see.”

His smile flashed again, and he rocked his head. “Well, maybe you’re right. I’ll see how it goes.”

Satisfied, the clerk pressed the stamp onto the page and handed it back. “Enjoy Slovenia.”

He passed through the luggage area, where other passengers from the Amsterdam- Ljubljana fl ight leaned on empty carts

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TheReadingWriter

Posted February 24, 2009

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The Tourist

Deceit is thick in the air in this modern spy novel. Shifting shapes, names, loyalties are as loosely moored as ever in the spy industry. While China's interest in Sudan's oil is mentioned, interpersonal human drama is the real center of this absorbing 6th novel from expatriate Olen Steinhauer. The clash of jurisdictions between the CIA and Homeland Security in the USA adds a touch of verisimilitude. Steinhauer does a very good job creating characters one cares about. He did the right thing by modelling his work on the great spy novelists of old.

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MyTrains

Posted May 15, 2009

Convoluted

The Tourist starts slowly but caught my interest. The plot is convoluted and if this were a movie you'd probably say it was about 1/2 hour too long. It winds to a good finish. I thought it was a good, but not great read.

6 out of 7 people found this review helpful.
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KenCady

Posted May 29, 2009

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A Chinese Puzzle

Layers of deceit are uncovered in The Tourist, and the reader is never sure if the truth has just been revealed or not. To say that the story is complex is an understatement, but the reader who sticks it though is rewarded with, well, something to think about. Our government, and security services everywhere, are manned by fallible humans, and they make mistakes and suffer corruption, and, seemingly, love to break the rules. What's to be done with that? The author is of no help there.

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Tigerpaw70

Posted September 19, 2010

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First Rate

Book 1 in the trilogy staring Milo Weaver

This seemingly realistic thriller is a first rate fiction , a tale of the nasty and deceitful world of spies and assassins.

Milo Weaver aka Charles Alexander is one of the CIA's highly skilled assassins, in the trade they are known as "Tourists". When deployed to various corners of the world, their missions are to be executed without question.

The story opens in 2001 with Milo at a low point in his life. Being a "Tourist" for several years has taken its toll..... his only escape at this point is amphetamines and they are leaving him in a suicidal state. A new mission in Venice to stop the hit man known as "The Tiger" gives him a whole new look at life......

The story flashes forward to 2007. Now a married man with a child, away from active duty and bored at his desk job Milo finds himself longing for the excitement and the adrenalin rush of his old job....Once a spook always a spook.... Milo is reinvigorated when he is summoned to the side of the "Tiger" for a death bed conversation.... The man's confessions send Milo off once again on a chilling path into the world of international conspiracies.

This novel is a modern twist of the old days of espionage, a compelling and intricate account of betrayal, manipulation, loyalty and risk. Its central figure is a complicated man with many faults and flaws, but when faced with extraordinary situations he excels. Throughout the novel you will find plenty of breathtaking scenes and heart stopping action. I enjoyed piecing together the various parts of this very entertaining puzzle and would not hesitate recommending it to anyone.

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AuntieAlice

Posted March 20, 2010

Being a Tourist doesn't necessarily mean being on vacation...

The Tourist in this case is a CIA agent who travels as a spy for his country. When Milo Weaver tried to leave his old life of secrets and spying, he is dragged back in to try to figure out who is pulling the strings and who are the good/bad guys. Good intrigue, plot engineering and layers to the storyline.

Grabbed me and I couldn't put it down. Now that I have finished it, I am going to catch up on my sleep! Mr. Steinhauer's sixth novel.

The blurb on the first page states that the film rights have been optioned by Warner Bros. for George Clooney. I can see that! And I always like to read the book first and generally they are deeper and more intricate than the movie.

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Anonymous

Posted May 23, 2009

I enjoyed the read but was disappointed with the conclusion if that was what it was supposed to be.

The prose and plot were very good but the conclusion was a let down. I usually read a book a week and I feel that there are better written books.

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harstan

Posted February 13, 2009

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fast-paced and filled with non-stop action

Six years ago Milo Weaver left his CIA field job as a "tourist" to sit at a desk in the New York City office; he knew it was time as the cold means no hesitation whatsoever. After taking some bullets to the chest in Vienna, Milo knew he would never be the same. He has since married and has become a father living with his loved ones in Brooklyn, which has helped Milo somewhat move past the adrenalin rush of undercover operations.

However, once a tourist always a tourist even if the courage has left you scared. His former boss informs him that a sheriff has arrested Samuel Roth for a domestic abuse incident in Blackdale, Tennessee; Samuel is thought to be the ferocious assassin Tiger and the brass want Milo to confirm his identity. However, the simple assignment turns ugly leaving Milo on the run from unknown adversaries and law enforcement who believes he is a cold blooded killer; his biggest fear is that his beloved spouse and daughter are in peril from his enemies.

THE TOURIST is fast-paced and filled with non-stop action yet as is the case with Olen Steinhauser¿s saga in an unnamed Eastern Europe twentieth century Communist series, the frustrations and anguish of the hero owns the story line. Mindful of Patrick McGoohan¿s character John Drake in Secret Agent Man, Milo is burned out and suffering from PTSD compounded when friends betray him leaving his family vulnerable. He stoically accepts that Johnny Rivers¿ lyrics is right ¿with every move he makes another chance he takes odds are he won't live to see tomorrow¿.

Harriet Klausner

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Anonymous

Posted May 25, 2012

Terrific Spy Novel!

Well written, easy to follow and understand, even for those of us with no background in this particular field of endeavor. Explanations of methods and the way that most intelligence agencies operate was believable. This is the first novel I have read by Olen Steinhauer, but I plan to read others.
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BubbaMo

Posted February 6, 2011

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Highly recommended

Really liked the plot and the style of writing. Easy and interesting read that will keep the reader anxious to turn the next page.
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6007009

Posted January 7, 2011

fun read

fun read with a few twists i wasnt expecting.
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TheGenius

Posted November 28, 2010

Couldn't Get Into It

This book was strangely written from the outset. The characters were dry and plot seemed dead. A choppy style to the prose made it difficult to follow or connect with creatively. Hopefully the movie will be good a standalone piece of work. I was unable to complete this read though it may hold promise for those able to adapt/follow the style of writing.
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thisisnotapenname

Posted November 22, 2010

Don't buy it

Over-hyped, overrated book. This book isn't much of a page turner. It offers a well-layered, complex plot, but lacks any suspenseful action to captivate a reader. The story moves methodically from one bland meeting to another among the principal characters. It becomes tedious. I have no doubt Steinhauer is an excellent writer, but the critical reviews praising this book are misplaced. His other stories might merit attention, but it seems his publicist just did a better job promoting the book than he did in writing it. Pick up something by Robert Ludlum before you read Olen Steinhauer.
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AMson

Posted August 14, 2010

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Good Spy Thriller

Steinhauer's done a great job of "weaving" (sorry about the pun) a complex story fleshed out with varying locations, layers of storyline, and moderately complex characters. It's a page turner from the start- although it can at times be confusing and convoluted.

Steinhauer has a great way of blending the esoteric world of spies and 'Tourists' with contemporary and familiar cultural references and atmosphere. The locations are real and lend themselves well to the story, and the types of situations, (ie. names of brands and establishments) all make real world sense- creating a believable story which takes place in an unfamiliar world.

The back and forth nature of the storytelling can be slow to digest, and the complicated reasoning behind the who/ what/ where/ why can be confusing, but it all comes together in a beautiful and suspenseful (but not action packed) end... (although not a finality)!

I'm on to the sequel with bated breath...

***This was a landmark book for me, as it was the first one I read entirely on my Nook! Great experience overall.
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Rockwall63

Posted April 20, 2010

It's good stuff, Hilts!

The Tourist is a layered, well thought out novel with exceptionally sharp character development, a few neat, I-didn't-see-that-coming twists, and a nifty hero who isn't just muscles & guts. Look forward to the sequel coming sometime in May...

(By the way, this novel is NOT the basis of the Depp / Jolie movie being filmed with the same name ... that one is a re-make of a French movie called Anthony Zimmer)
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VPI66

Posted April 17, 2010

Very good book

Engaging look at a spy who wants to get away from the nastier side of the business and live a "normal life" as a spy who can work nine to five. Events from the past don't allow this and he is forced to go back to the violence and being on the run. The events and actions keep you interested and the plot is good. I would read anything by this author after reading this book.
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Cynrunner

Posted April 10, 2010

Entertaining Spy Story

Loved imagining Johnny Depp playing the lead character. Made the story better, even amusing at times. This is one time I can say I think possibly the movie might come out better than the book.

Was not that excited to pass the book on to friends as a great find, however, I am looking forward to the opening of the movie.

Hated the ending.
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JPTaiChi

Posted March 27, 2010

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The Tourist

I pickup up this book because of the brief recommendation from Stephen King, on the back of The Tourist. This was a very complicated, well written novel. I loved it. The Tourist presents a "new to me" espionage concept; someone so deep undercover, he never comes home. Weaver just traveled, as directed, using assumed identities. When he leaves that life behind, he's dragged right back for a final assignment. Marvelous read, not a quick read; for fans of John Le Carre, etc.
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Posted February 27, 2010

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I thought the book was a quick read, but a bit slow. i expected more action. Definitely not for Vince Flynn, Brad Thor and David Hagberg fans.

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spyguy

Posted February 15, 2010

Great Read

I really enjoyed this book. As an avid reader of spy-fi I enjoy books that are plausable. The Tourist is definately that, its not an over the top "Bond" type. The ending had that "No Way Out" feel. I look foward to more Milo Weaver and "Tourism" stories. Highly recommend!
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Posted May 30, 2009

GREAT

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