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        <itunes:author>Matthew C. McLean</itunes:author>
        <itunes:summary>An American expatriate in France finds himself caught between competing criminals, U.S. intelligence services, and a Corsican who just wants to find his girl.</itunes:summary>
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                <title>The American: Chapter 60</title>

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                <itunes:subtitle>The Trouble with Escape, Part 2</itunes:subtitle>
                
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                <itunes:summary>The American is a noir tale in which expatriate in France finds himself caught between competing criminals, U.S. intelligence, and a Corsican who just wants to find his girl. In this chapter, the Expat and Sophie try to help young lovers find each other by night.</itunes:summary>
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                <itunes:subtitle>The Trouble with Kidnapping</itunes:subtitle>
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                <itunes:summary>The American is a noir thriller of an expatriate in France who finds himself caught between competing criminals, U.S. intelligence, and a Corsican who just wants to find his girl. In this episode, the good job of covering for a lie leads to permission for a bad idea.</itunes:summary>
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                <itunes:title>The American: Chapter 2</itunes:title>
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                <itunes:author>Matthew C. McLean</itunes:author>
                
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                <itunes:author>Matthew C. McLean</itunes:author>
                <itunes:subtitle>The Corsican, part 1</itunes:subtitle>
                <itunes:summary>An American expatriate in France finds himself caught between competing criminals, U.S. intelligence services, and a Corsican who just wants to find his girl. A work of serial audio fiction.

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