Though the Colonel had many enemies, the violence of his death shocks the sleepy village and starts the tongues of the local gossips wagging.
—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
15 July 2026
Even when Romanzy goes off on how stupid and ugly Caleb is — and gossips that his parents abandoned him because something must be wrong with him — Mary goes along with it.
To Robby and Michael, suddenly seeing their parents in the news again as spies was painful.
—
Amy Weiss-Meyer,
The Atlantic,
10 July 2026
Reddick loads her genre-blurring tale with outlandish intrigue involving Soviet spies, a capitalist cult and a roving choir that doubles as a Greek chorus.
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