Here at his bolt hole in Santa Cruz on the Californian coast, he's a world away from the claustrophobia of his writer's lair in New York, where for seven long years he worried away at the story of the Lambert family.

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Many of the foreigners' factories are there because investors in China sought a bolt hole: China has its own high tariffs, many countries limit imports from China, and trade was each year threatened by the annual debate in Congress over the terms of America's trade relations with China.

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And Paraguay became a bolt-hole for Nazi war criminals, including for a time the former SS doctor at Auschwitz, Josef Mengele.

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The way you do that is you cut off their bolt-hole so that there's nowhere that they can hide, and you cut off their sources of supply, both of money and of arms, and that has, that is going to be an ongoing operation.

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From a traffic flow point of view, the hole in the support on the far side of the box was occupied by a machine bolt with a nut loosely screwed into the end.

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