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Word: nechayev (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Halliday, that the sender is a man to be taken seriously. Next, through devious channels, follows a more attractive package: an offer to the writer to edit "a definitive work on the nature of terrorism"-based on the newly discovered journals of a 19th century anarchist named Sergei Gennadiyevich Nechayev. Halliday's fee: $50,000. Such jack being rare for a hack, Halliday warily takes on the job. It leads him to Italy and to the mailer of the bomb, an unsavory entrepreneur of many aliases-Zander, Brochet, Hecht, Luccio-all of which, in various languages, mean pike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Forever Ambler | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

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