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The Secrets of a Chess Master
"i'm robbing a casino, so i'm going for a cun of ocean's 11 stal heist. So you need have brains behind the operation." "I had to rule out jack shepard, the eighteenth century celebrity escape artist who kept escaping from prison and getting caught as well" 'You don't want anyone like, really nasty and violent,' says author David Walliams. "'It also took me so long because i had so many candidates in my head' - Mr Walliams on putting together his dream team.
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