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Award, was named a Commander of Arts and JEROME CHARYN companions in the White House are the captain Letters by the French Minister of Culture, and is of his helicopter fleet and a beautiful naval the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the intelligence officer—who quickly realizes that Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Fiction JEROME something has gone amok at Camp David, when a from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. band of mercenaries arrive with their sights trained He lives in New York. on Sidel . . .

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