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Welcome to Purity, Maine. An isolated town, it’s the perfect place for a spy to retire. Or is it? Thus begins the journey for Maggie Bird and four of her fellow ex-CIA agents in Tess Gerritsen’s latest novel, The Spy Coast. Choosing Maine as the central setting for the novel was made easy by the fact that Maine has had many ex-CIA operatives retire there. Gerritsen’s husband, a doctor, found that several of his patients identified as being past employees of the US government, the CIA, and Secret Service. The five in this novel describe themselves as being, “five old spies with five lifetimes w...