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With One Hand Waving Free
Ken Fuller
Independently published, £12.99
KEN FULLER’S book With One Hand Waving Free is a good old-fashioned spy yarn in the tradition of Graham Greene’s classic Our Man in Havana, but with a clear left-wing bias.
The story revolves around the fictional Caribbean island of Arawak. As someone who has a lineage to the region, after my ancestors were stolen from Africa, the choice of name by Fuller is significant.
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