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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Their espionage career began in 1974 after Christopher's father, an FBI man turned electronics executive, got his son a $140-a-week job with TRW Defense and Space Systems Group near Los Angeles. The young man's duties included handling coded messages from the CIA about spy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Loose Ends | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

Over the next year they sold thousands of messages, diagrams and computer codes to the resident Soviet agents, including a KGB colonel with steel teeth. The Soviets wound up unwittingly bankrolling Daulton's drug operation, and the pair came to grief only after an unannounced delivery to the embassy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Loose Ends | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

The Falcon and the Snowman omits no telling detail - about falconry, the drug trade, spy satellites, the duo's stoned bum-bung, and their torturous legal battles after capture. But there are enough tantalizing loose ends in the book to make it clear that Lindsey is describing life, not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Loose Ends | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

Contrary to cliché, Hollywood does not manufacture dreams; it preserves them in strips of celluloid that promise eternal life. Hollywood embalms desire. Hollywood is a necropolis lined with deities made to appear more beautiful and menacing than they really are. Hollywood, In short, is a good read, even when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Roll 'Em | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

Daydreaming about the death of a spouse is a punishable offense in the world of this novel, particularly when the dreamer has a girlfriend with limitless funds and a small portfolio of scruples. When Clare does indeed die violently, Strickland and the London police seem curiously unwilling to suspect the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Private Acts | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

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