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The Crook Factory is a thriller novel by American author Dan Simmons. The book was initially published by William Morrow on March 1, 1999. The novel tells a fictionalized version of the real life counter-espionage and spy ring, known as the Crook Factory, that was set up by Ernest Hemingway in Cuba during World War II. Overview
- Dan Simmons
- 1999
Jan 1, 2001 · Hemingway has assembled a spy ring that he calls the "Crook Factory"--including an American millionaire, a twelve-year-old Cuban orphan, a Spanish jai alai champion, a priest, and a fisherman, among others--to play a dangerous game of amateur espionage.
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Feb 5, 2013 · Simmons packs it all into a 60% true/ 40% fiction account of Nazi hunting in Cuba by Hemingway's Crook's Factory in 1943. Well-done, like everything else Simmons writes.
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- Dan Simmons
- $14.49
- Mulholland Books
Feb 5, 2013 · The Crook Factory Kindle Edition. by Dan Simmons (Author) Format: Kindle Edition. 4.4 340 ratings. See all formats and editions. It's the summer of 1942, and FBI agent Joe Lucas has come to Cuba at the behest of the Director to keep an eye on Ernest Hemingway in the Caribbean.
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- Hachette Book GroupPrice set by seller.
Feb 5, 2013 · This delightfully spry novel offers a fictionalized account of Ernest Hemingway, who during the 1930s set up a U.S. government-sanctioned intelligence network, a.k.a. the Crook Factory, in Cuba with a cadre of fishing buddies, waiters, prostitutes, and other unlikely operatives to apprehend Nazi infiltrators.
- 9780.3B
- 02/05/2013
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- Little, Brown and Company
The Crook Factory. Dan Simmons. Little, Brown, Feb 5, 2013 - Fiction - 560 pages. It's the summer of 1942, and FBI agent Joe Lucas has come to Cuba at the behest of the Director to keep an eye on...
Feb 5, 2013 · Lucas thinks of it as a demotion-a babysitting job for a famous writer who has decided to play spy, assembling a team of misfits including an American millionaire, a twelve-year-old Cuban orphan, a Spanish jai alai champion and more in a would-be espionage ring Hemingway dubs the “Crook Factory.”
