<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- generator="wordpress.com" -->
<urlset xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9 http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd"
	xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
	xmlns:news="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-news/0.9"
	xmlns:image="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1"
	>
<url><loc>https://daveastoronliterature.com/2026/05/24/adept-at-avoiding-accountability-in-real-life-and-fiction/</loc><news:news><news:publication><news:name>Dave Astor on Literature</news:name><news:language>en</news:language></news:publication><news:publication_date>2026-05-24T13:18:37+00:00</news:publication_date><news:title>Adept at Avoiding Accountability, in Real Life and Fiction</news:title><news:keywords>authors, books, fiction, literature, novels, politics, Donald Trump, Jane Austen, Donna Tartt, sue-grafton, alphabet-mysteries, pride-and-prejudice, fyodor-dostoevsky, cormac-mccarthy, crime-and-punishment, george-orwell, nineteen-eighty-four, daphne-du-maurier, rebecca, iran-war, thomas-massie, epstein-files, epstein-scandal, january-6, netanyahu, trump-corruption, trump-self-enriching, gets-away-with-crimes, not-punished-for-crimes, the-secret-history, no-country-for-old-men, patricia-highsmith, the-talented-mr-ripley, escapes-justice</news:keywords></news:news></url></urlset>
