Russian proverb: "The most difficult thing to predict is not the future,...

...but the past." What does it mean? I found this quote on a flyleaf of the book "Snow Wolf", by Glenn Meade, 510 pages, St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1995, ISBN 0-312-96211-8. It is a fine book: powerful, moving, engrossing, gripping. If you liked "The Day of the Jackal" and "The Eagle Has Landed", you should like "Snow Wolf."

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Thanks, Jim