Maclean’s books: Required reading for your long weekend
This week’s reviews: A Houdini novel with an amazing reveal, a new biography of John Wayne and an epic history of Athens
BOOK REVIEWS
The Transcriptionist, by Amy Rowland. Reviewed by Julia McKinnell.
John Wayne: The Life and Legend, by Scott Eyman. Reviewed by Jaime J. Weinman.
No Good Men Among the Living: America, The Taliban, and the War Through Afghan Eyes, by Anand Gopal. Reviewed by Michael Petrou.
The Confabulist, by Steven Galloway. Reviewed by Richard Warnica.
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Athens, by James McGregor. Reviewed by Brian Bethune.
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