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The Metayer Brothers

Jesse Walker | 4.2.2004 4:28 AM

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From Haiti, a tale of social banditry, revolution, and revenge.

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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