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The 1990s · Washington, D.C., 1999

Pop Goes the Weasel

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A British diplomat turns murder into a fantasy game

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Washington, D.C., 1999. Geoffrey Shafer is a wealthy British diplomat with diplomatic immunity who feels he's losing control. His outlet is a fantasy game, the Four Horsemen, where he plays Death and kills for real while swapping emails with the other players. Bodies start turning up around the city, and Cross senses a pattern. Meanwhile, his personal life finally seems to settle down with Christine Johnson, until she disappears. Shafer's immunity makes reaching him as hard as arresting him. We found no reliable source for the ending, so it stays out.

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  1. Behind the scenesThe Four Horsemen

    The killers' game has four players: Shafer is Death, and the others are Conqueror, Famine and War. One of them, James Whitehead, is the man who recruited Shafer into MI6.

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  2. Behind the scenesTwo voices on the audiobook

    The 1999 audiobook has Keith David as Cross and Roger Rees as Geoffrey Shafer.

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