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Martin Langfield

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Martin Langfield is a writer and journalist. He was a foreign correspondent, bureau chief and editor for Reuters from 1987 to 2019, working mostly in the Americas. He reported mainly from El Salvador, Mexico, Madrid, Miami, Peru, Cuba, Nicaragua, London and New York. He later worked with the company's Breakingviews commentary team. Martin studied French and Spanish languages and literature at Trinity Hall, Cambridge University in England. He has also worked as an English teacher in Paris and studied indigenous literature in Mexico. He lives in New York. ...more

A Cautionary Tale

I wrote an article for my friends at News Decoder about the age-old balance between security and freedom, and how the increasingly dictatorial Nayib Bukele in El Salvador should be a cautionary tale, not an inspiration, for his admirers in the United States.

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Average rating: 2.83 · 786 ratings · 98 reviews · 2 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Malice Box

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Why protests in Latin America matter

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COUNTER NARRATIVE by Gordon K. Duguid
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Anyone who has contended with overconfident know-it-alls parachuting in from distant headquarters to tell them how to do their jobs will relate to the travails of Phil Bardo. Bardo is the protagonist of Gordon K. Duguid's fascinating novel of diploma ...more
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Crime and Prejudice by Julia L Miller
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Delightful vignettes set in a literary world, Jane Austen's, that the author clearly knows inside out and wickedly subverts at every opportunity. "Crime and Prejudice" displays a refined sense of mischief and a complete mastery of Austen-esque style ...more
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How Not to Kill a Spy by John Fullerton
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"How Not To Kill a Spy," the author's second Septimus Brass novel, builds on the first, "Armistice Day," to paint a more complex portrait of the cranky, creaky sleuth himself as well as the key figures in his world, especially a talented but seemingl ...more
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The Pearl Hunter by Miya T. Beck
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Miya T. Beck's "The Pearl Hunter" is a sophisticated work of fiction that will enchant its declared middle-grade target audience as well as readers who are rather longer in the tooth. If the children or grandchildren can eventually be persuaded to sh ...more
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Dateline Baghdad by Luke Baker
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"Dateline Baghdad" recounts the adventures of a tyro foreign correspondent amid the chaos of post-Saddam Iraq nearly 20 years ago. It is several tales in one, some more light-hearted than others. The novel builds up a powerful head of steam in its se ...more
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Armistice Day by John   Fullerton
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John Fullerton's latest novel, "Armistice Day," is a spy thriller with a (broken) heart at its center that satisfies and fascinates on several levels. Early echoes of "The Day of the Jackal" by Frederick Forsyth (like Fullerton, an ex-Reuters novelis ...more
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Through a Clouded Mirror by Miya T. Beck
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A delightful follow-up to "The Pearl Hunter" by an author of proven skill and imagination. Congratulations to Miya T. Beck, who again draws on Japanese folklore and myth to weave a captivating tale for middle-grade readers and beyond.
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