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Set in Milan between the world wars, this book follows an extremely naive young man who accepts a job in more of a sales role with a manufacturing company that makes machines that make bullets. His background as an engineer in England seems to somehow have left him unprepared to understand how his job might be complicated by the political events going on between Italy and Germany. So, he gets drawn into a mess of espionage that got his predecessor killed. In some ways his naivete protects him, b
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