The Man Who Heard Too Much

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This book is concerned with the questions of Soviet Jewish emigration and the political fate of Lithuania. The book is set in the period before the open Lithuanian Republic push for total independence but after the first glimmers of what is called “glasnost.” It reflects both political and religious entanglements true at the time. This book, like others in the November chronicles, also brings up the continuing and real problem of computer security versus computer virus programs.

The first book in this series, which is a sort of history of cold war politics and the bureaucracies that direct them, was The November Man [now published under the title Code Name November] and concerned a plot by IRA terrorists to assassinate a cousin of the British Queen while on his boat off the Irish coast. The book appeared a few weeks before Lord Mountbatten was assassinated by terrorists off the Irish coast. The prescience was unintended; it was my attempt to turn reporting observation into a study of future logic. It appears this book, written in 1988, also focused on aspects of an international story before the story actually began to unfold.

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