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| Author | John Griesemer |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Political novel, war novel |
| Publisher | Picador |
Publication date | May 2001 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover, Paperback) |
| Pages | 332 |
| ISBN | 978-0-312-27457-3 |
| OCLC | 45888863 |
No One Thinks Of Greenland is a May 2001 novel by John Griesemer, upon which the film Guy X was based.
The book is set after the Korean War. The novel follows the misadventures of the character Rudy Spruance who has been mistaken for another soldier and inadvertently assigned to Greenland.
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