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from civilization. --- Miles from civilization - and 300 feet from a very good camera with a telephoto lens. The star attraction was a woman named Lysa Dean. --- It was a blackmail set-up as old as the hills. McGee - waterfront gypsy - did not want to touch the deal with a ten-foot pole. Except there was another woman involved, a lovely, longing, tender woman whose life was slowly draining away into disaster..."
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