No One Thinks of Greenland

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No One Thinks of Greenland
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Author John Griesemer
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre Political novel, war novel
Publisher Picador
Publication date
May 2001
Media typePrint (Hardcover, Paperback)
Pages332
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.

Plot summary

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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