Yet, as I tried to explain in my response, there was method in the apparent madness of these suggestions, and it went something like this: I assume the reason for his embarrassment was that the only two authors with named books on the list were non-native residents of Liechtenstein – the German thriller writer CC Bergius and the Austrian explorer and mountaineer Heinrich Harrer, a controversial figure who joined the Nazi party shortly before the outbreak of the second world war. ‘Now who recommended the Liechtenstein authors to you?!’ he wrote. Just after I’d finished reading this book, I had an email from a Liechtenstein publisher.
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