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Sokolov gave the woman a quick, courteous bob of the head before stepping out. Rasputins shadow sean reilly and tess chaykin, book 4 by raymond khoury book cover, description, publication history. Rasputins shadow templar series book 4 kindle edition by. Rather than being a distraction from the action, the skillful weaving of flashbacks into the. Rasputin myth debunked rasputins corpse was dragged from under the ice. His novels have been translated into more than forty languages and, in the case of the last templar, adapted into a comic book and an nbc television miniseries.
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