As the Nazis march on Paris and the crisis escalates, four remarkable characters are swept into the maelstrom. Their courage will change the course of history.
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Epic and yet intimate, a seamless blend of fact and fiction based on a little-known episode of the war, The Alibi Club is a thriller of fierce and complex suspense by a writer whose own life in the spy world makes espionage come uniquely alive. From the Hardcover edition.
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Clive Cussler and Boyd Morrison. Patriot Games Movie Tie-In. Clive Cussler and Robin Burcell. Dinner at the Center of the Earth. A Legacy of Spies. In , seven Washingtonians founded the Alibi Club, a private social club consisting of prominent political and social figures. Its name derived from the club practice of providing an alibi when the whereabouts of a member was questioned by the member's family.
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The club's founding purpose was to foster "mutual improvement, education, and enlightenment" among members of Washington society. Membership also extended to out of town figures from New York City , Boston and Philadelphia , most likely to share information between communities and help in the development of strategies to address civic issues. The first clubhouse was situated at 17th and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.
Since , the club has occupied a three-story, brick townhouse blocks away from the White House.
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The clubhouse is furnished with donated memorabilia and artifacts that cover nearly every available section of wall on the first two floors. The clubhouse is also notable as a well-preserved example of residential architecture in a commercial district, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 21, Membership is limited to fifty, with new members admitted upon unanimous vote after the death of a previous member. Membership is not revealed to outsiders, and the first public notice of membership is often in a member's obituary.
Some of the Alibi Club's most prominent members have included: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. National Register of Historic Places.
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