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Clearly, he has unresolved issues regarding how he was raised and the fact that he hears his fathers voice in his head continuously throughout the book, suggests that wellington is not neurotypical. Retribution is at hand, thanks to britains bestkept secret agents certainly no strangers to peculiar occurrences, agents wellington books and eliza braun are nonetheless stunned. Read the book on paper it is quite a powerful experience. The janus affair king county library system overdrive. The storytelling is cracking and the worldbuilding layered.
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