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- Clerk (Bookstore): Help you, sir? Oh, 'Ordeal.' It's phenomenal, isn't it?
- Arthur Poe: Phenomenal?
- Clerk (Bookstore): Yes. Staying number one on the bestseller list for so long now. I understand they've sold it for pictures, and they're going to adapt it for a play. It's a story about three American prisoners in a Korean prison camp.