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    'The Pursuit Of William Abbey' Travels A Twisty Path

    Claire North's new book starts with a doctor witnessing an atrocity in Africa in 1884, but becomes a spy thriller, a horror story, a supernatural mystery and an indictment of capitalism and empire.
    by Jason Sheehan Nov 17, 2019 4 minutes

    You have to be careful. Claire North's The Pursuit of William Abbey is not the book you think it is.

    It is not the book on page 1 that you think it might become on page 10 and it is not the same book on page 50 that it is on page 100. It is a historical fiction that becomes a horror story, a thriller, a supernatural mystery, a spy story, a heavily political indictment of capitalism and empire, a war story, a love story. It is the incomplete tale of a life (two lives, ten lives) told over

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