The Double-A Team: The Saboteur's shameless Paris sojourn offered up cabaret and carnage

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Déjà vu. It happened when I was browsing a clothing catalogue in one of Red Dead Redemption 2's general stores. Among the abundance of cowboy hats, a lone flat cap. After equipping that careworn burgundy outlier, a decade melted away. I was no longer crotchety desperado Arthur Morgan. Instead I had resurrected Sean Devlin, gutsy Irish racing daredevil, two-fisted scourge of jackbooted bullies and indefatigable liberator of occupied Paris. A memory rose, unbidden, of wild nights in the City of Light, incinerating Nazi zeppelins while yelling: "My toothless old gran's tougher than you!"

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