Word: fusil
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...rescue of Dongala. Roth had met the author in 1980 during one of his visits to the U.S. and the two formed a lasting friendship. Although Dongala was in town for business related to his work as a chemist, he was writing extensively, and his first book, Un Fusil dans le Main, Une Poeme dans la Poche (A Gun in the Hand, a Poem in the Pocket) had already won him prizes for the best French novel written by a non-Frenchman. When Roth heard Dongala was trapped in war-torn Congo, he drew on the lobbying power of Senator...
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