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LONGLISTED FOR THE ALCS "GOLD DAGGER" AWARD FOR NON-FICTION CRIME WRITING
Uncover the story behind the death of renowned diplomat and UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld in this true story of spies and intrigue surrounding one of the most enduring unsolved mysteries of the twentieth century.
On September 17, 1961,…
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The period after an aircraft goes missing, and before any trace of it turns up, is known as "The Uncertainty Phase" – just one of many fascinating facts I learned from Ravi Somaiya’s forensically-researched book, and a term which perfectly sums up the cross-currents of conflict and conspiracy surrounding the mysterious death of UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld in a plane crash near the Congo/Zambia border in 1961.
Published in the UK under the more obscure title Operation Morthor, Somaiya’s 2020 non-fiction debut draws on his journalism and documentary background, and on novelistic non-fiction classics in the courtroom drama and…
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