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"textContent": "\n\n _Red Verdict_ is the fourth book in former F.B.I. director James Comey’s Nora Carleton series.\n\n##### This month in mysteries: James Comey’s new espionage thriller and the latest installment in Anthony Horowitz’s meta-mystery series\n\nBy Lisa Henricksson\n\nThere’s a lot of cool tradecraft in James Comey’s new espionage thriller, _Red Verdict:_ notes hidden inside fake rivets on subway-platform pillars, deluxe surveillance strollers equipped with listening devices, dust-dispensing machines that return a searched room to its original state. It’s hard to believe that an author so sophisticated about super-secret things would send a murderous message to the president via a sinister Instagram photo of… seashells?\n\nGiven the weakness of the Department of Justice’s case against Comey, I hope the former F.B.I. director will be able to continue his thriving career as a fiction writer, because he’s quite adept at it and shouldn’t become another victim of Trump’s retribution tour. READ ON",
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