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was written between 2003 and 2007, and it soaked up all the tensions of that period: S11, the
Neoconservative hegemony on US foreign policy, the lies on Saddam allegedly keeping weapons of mass destruction hidden in the desert, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, George W. Bush winning his second term
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was initially conceived as the first episode of an 18th-century pan-Atlantic trilogy which the authors called "the
Atlantic Triptych". All novels would be set in the last three decades of the 18th century, all across the Atlantic Ocean (North America, Europe, the West Indies and Africa), before and
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wrote that the novel "has clear parallels with the war in Iraq, and the pitting of "good" Muslims against "bad" Muslims, just as Native
Americans were used during the revolutionary period, only for the colonists to exploit and devastate both groups."
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