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Fans are getting anxious, and so are Carroll’s agent and lawyer. He humorously describes a “literary intervention” where his agent, his lawyer, and the agent’s assistant all met him for lunch after Void of Course was published. “They all laid into me, saying, you have to choose one of these two books. You’ve been making notes now for years,” he said...
...flavor is lost within two weeks. In an airtight container, green coffee beans stay fresh for more than a year. They also cost about half the price of commercially roasted beans, allowing consumers to stockpile a collection of higher-quality beans. Suzanne Lattanzio, a Hampshire, Ill., real estate agent, has been home-roasting for two years and says she "hates" buying roasted beans. "I like the romance of the different names and being able to pick out something from some far-off port...
...generally a bad sign when a book's author is more intriguing than its protagonist. But in the case of At Risk (Knopf; 367 pages) it really can't be helped. At Risk is a thriller about Liz Carlyle, a plucky young agent in MI5 (Britain's equivalent of the FBI) who spars with a roguish male sidekick while chasing a bomb-toting Islamic terrorist and his "invisible" (blond, British and female) co-conspirator. The book follows the standard spy-novel formula, though the formula works with surprising elegance--perhaps because its author, Stella Rimington, is a former director general...
...list, publishers have been paying large sums for fictionalized legal and criminal expertise. January alone saw high-profile books from Linda Fairstein, a 25-year veteran prosecutor in Manhattan's sex-crimes unit, as well as Bill Bonanno, an ex-mobster, and Joe Pistone, a Mafia-infiltrating ex-FBI agent. But Rimington, 69, is the biggest name in law enforcement yet to give fiction a go. She began working for MI5 in 1965, when, as the wife of a British diplomat in New Delhi, she was hired as a local office clerk. Upon her return to London, she started spying...
...book was vetted--as was Rimington's first--by MI5, but they didn't strip out all the inside dope, which arrives in fascinating little flashes as Liz identifies obscure Russian ammunition, jokes about the macho idiots in MI6 (Britain's CIA) and delicately recruits a young Muslim agent. Most striking, though, is that with the terrorist threat mounting and untold lives at stake, Liz seems to be enjoying herself. "Well," says Rimington, "she is loosely autobiographical...