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'Peter Golding has written in lively style a fascinating account of the life of Allan Fleming (1912–2001): teacher, journalist, decorated soldier, defence intelligence expert, trade commissioner, parliamentary librarian, National Librarian and then, from out of retirement, head of a new counterterrorist organisation responsible for the security of Australian public figures, starting in 1978 at the time of the Hilton Hotel bombing in Sydney.' (Introduction)