Word: agent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will remember, of course, that Bernard Samson, England's rough-cut intelligence agent in Berlin, was bamboozling communist Stasi operatives with great success until his beautiful and highborn wife Fiona defected to East Germany and set up shop as a KGB colonel, no less. This breach of marital etiquette caused Samson endless problems -- how to find a suitable nanny for the children, whether to marry his young mistress, how to prove that he himself was not a Soviet mole, and so on -- detailed moodily and lengthily in the two most recent novels of Deighton's double trilogy, Spy Hook...
This final entry gives Fiona's side of matters. As Bernard had pretty much figured out by the end of Spy Line -- and as the KGB was surely on the point of discovering -- Fiona had been a double agent all along, playing a delicate and deadly game for the cozy old establishmentarians who run Britain's spies. Deighton persuades the reader to take this shell-and-pea shuffling more or less seriously by giving real weight to Fiona's predicament. She is bright and tough, but the pressure of remembering her lines and her lies has worn away her resilience...
...Celtics had an embarrassing summer. First, they were snubbed by Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski, and were forced to hire Chris Ford instead. Then they found themselves in a bizarre courtroom battle with guard Brian Shaw and his rebellious agent, Jerome Stanley. Finally, Reggie Lewis announced to the media that he was planning to leave Boston, at the same moment that his agent (You guessed it--Jerome Stanley) was hammering out a contract with Celtic management. The Green Mystique is dead...
...Celtics had an embarrassing summer. First, they were snubbed by Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski, and were forced to hire Chris Ford instead. Then they found themselves in a bizarre courtroom battle with guard Brian Shaw and his rebellious agent, Jerome Stanley. Finally, Reggie Lewis announced to the media that he was planning to leave Boston, at the same moment that his agent (You guessed it--Jerome Stanley) was hammering out a contract with Celtic management. The Green Mystique is dead...
Since then, the agent has represented the likes of Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme, Julio Iglesias, Tony Orlando and Jackie Mason. "The stars are victims more than co-conspirators," maintains a Mafia investigator. "In order to work, they have to cooperate." Salomon vehemently denies any Mob ties. Says he: "I'm the cleanest, purest person you'll ever meet in your life." Salomon admits knowing "Jimmy Nap" but wonders, "Doesn't everybody...