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Book Review of The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep (Evan Tanner, No 1)

The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep (Evan Tanner, No 1)
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Evan Tanner, specialist in lost political causes, in this rousing, often comic yarn. Unable to sleep for 15 years following a Korean War head wound, Tanner devotes his considerable free time to reading, learning languages, and turning his affliction into a livelihood by writing theses and dissertations for graduate students in New York. Then he learns of hidden Armenian gold in Turkey and sets off on an unlikely adventure that makes him the most wanted fugitive in the world as well as the accidental leader of a Macedonian revolt.