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Ritter speaks out again

By Nicholas Clee
Publication: Bookseller
Date: Friday, October 6 2006
The agent is Isobel Dixon at Blake Friedmann, acting for US publisher Nation. Politicos, which will publish Target Iran in early 2007, has UK and Commonwealth rights exc ANZ; Dixon has also sold the book to Allen & Unwin in Australia

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