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Book review: Oliver's Army by Solomon Hughes
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Morning Star readers probably consider themselves fairly knowledgeable about the various forms of wickedness and crookedness that abound in the modern world.
But I promise you won’t be able to keep still while reading Solomon Hughes’s debut thriller Oliver’s Army. Eyes will pop, jaws drop and heads will shake with amazement.
In his work for the Star and for Private Eye Hughes has shown himself a master of the difficult craft of picking the bones out of documents reluctantly coughed up by the Freedom of Information Act.
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