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Montenegro

Author(s): Starling Lawrence

Location(s): Montenegro

Genre(s): Fiction

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English traveller, Auberon Harwell happens upon a remote valley in the mountains of Montenegro with World War I a dark prophecy on the horizon. Posing as a botanist, but in reality a confidential agent of an English peer, he becomes involved in the regions’ tangled politics and passions.

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