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By day, geoffrey shafer is a charming, 42yearold british embassy paperpusher with a pictureperfect family and a shady past as an mi6 secret. But there are terrifically interesting stories behind these rhymes, often pertaining to british history. Pop goes the weasel is a nursery rhyme originating in england. Pop goes the weasel and millions of other books are available for amazon kindle. In pop goes the weasel, james patterson has created a formidable villain every reader will see in the shadows when the lights are out, a tender love story, a plot powered by relentless suspense and psychological thrills kicked up to an alltime high. The author presents the explanation, or explanations, and tries to document them.
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