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The Gladiator

Pages
288
Published
2007
Language
English

Synopsis

In a world where the Soviet Union won the Cold War, Italy has become a communist stronghold. Two shopkeepers in Milan find themselves caught in a dangerous game of underground resistance when they discover a strategy game that challenges the party's rigid ideology. They must navigate a landscape of informants and secret police to keep their subversive hobby from costing them their lives.

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Harry Turtledove

Harry Norman Turtledove is an American novelist, who has produced works in several genres including alternate history, historical fiction, fantasy and science fiction. In 1979, Turtledove published his first two novels, Wereblood and Werenight, under the pseudonym "Eric G. Iverson." Turtledove later explained that his editor at Belmont Tower did not think people would believe the author's real name was "Turtledove" and came up with something more Nordic. He continued to use the "Iverson"...

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