Several days later, forced to eat dressing gown and slippers, beer stocks running low…

Help, I’m trapped! Please send food and beer…

Just started on this little number, it’s about the CIA’s plan to smuggle banned books behind the iron curtain during the Cold War.
I was struck by the irony of America now banning books in schools. Perhaps the Russians could now smuggle books into America?
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