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The body of author Crispin Salvador is fished out of the Hudson River on a cold winter morning in 2002. Police find no evidence of foul play, and most observers conclude that the writer took his own life. Yet Salvador had been working on a controversial book, The Bridges Ablaze, an exposé that promised to embarrass many powerful people in his native Phi…

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