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adhesive_wombat on Nov 3, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Universal Paperclips

This is the plot of an Alastair MacLean novel involving a mysterious electronic device that was supposed to be "lost" to the Soviets (the guy they choose to lose it wasn't told about that bit and turned out to be pretty good at the job he thought he had).

dropit_sphere on Nov 3, 2022 [–]

I love Alastair MacLean's stuff! What was it called?

adhesive_wombat on Nov 3, 2022 | [–]

I remembered wrongly, it's Running Blind by Desmond Bagley. Mostly set in Iceland.

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