Slipping Finland The official account has already

The official account has already taken hold but a hawk-eyed octogenarian named Monk

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not exactly the one that Americans think they know

Slipping Finland The official account has alreadyWhen Albert Jackson, a middle aged school teacher, catches a glimpse of the infinite universe and his own tiny insignificance he cannot shake himself free of regret for a life all but squandered. In a blind and demented attempt to salvage something from his life, he sets off, half lucidly, on a libertine mission to reclaim life, to live it exclusively on his terms. But the wild and sinister crime he plots, so characterised by delusion, sets him on a