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He is delightfully contrarian, always finding openings to new perspectives in the cracks between revealed facts, and thus he frequently surprises. Editions of saints of the shadow bible by ian rankin. His colleagues back then called themselves the saints and swore a bond on something called the shadow bible. Buy saints of the shadow bible by ian rankin online at alibris.
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