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Wonderfilm media and tiderock media have acquired the film and television rights to james houston turner s bestselling aleksandr talanov series of action thrillers about a former kgb agent who became a spy for america. I will be reading his other works on this wonderful character. The inuit named him saumik, which means the lefthanded one. I first selfpublished it, got myself on some tv shows, then sold. Houston is the author of eight novels, including bird of another heaven and snow mountain passage. Talanov the fictional character was inspired by the actual kgb agent who once leaked word out of moscow that james was on a kgb watchlist for his smuggling activities behind the old iron curtain.
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