A Man Called X - Half Penny Stamp
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A Man Called X - Half Penny Stamp

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 6, 202625 min
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["The Man Called X"] Listen to Herbert Marshall as the man called X. Wherever there is mystery, adventure, intrigue, in all the strange and dangerous places of the world,

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there you will find the man called X. From the oil fields of Iran to the fertile delta of the Nile, the smoldering colds of ancient hatreds of militant nationalism threatened to burst into a fiery inferno that could well be the start of World War III. And who would there be to say whether such a flaming holocaust

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came into being accidentally or was deliberately ignited as a weapon of destruction aimed at the Western democracies? The time is 9.45 p.m. The place, a dark crooked alleyway near the dock area of Cairo. The The furtive figure of a man moves cautiously, hesitatingly, through the black enveloping

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