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Terrorist groups, like any other criminal conspiracies, are best attacked by infiltration. This means either planting an undercover agent in their midst or recruiting one of their members as an informant. This...
...ambition and avarice in Success, Money and London Fields displayed his own ambition and avarice. He demanded and eventually got from the English publisher HarperCollins, U.K., an advance of nearly £500,000 (almost $800,000) for his latest novel. In the process, he tossed over his longtime British agent and friend, Pat Kavanagh, for a more aggressive U.S. representative, Andrew Wylie, called "the Jackal" by publishers and rivals because of his opportunistic business style...
...advances, if only out of self-interest: big, highly publicized deals raise the negotiating floor for everyone. But Amis' grab offended the sensibilities of some of his English literary colleagues. One was novelist Julian Barnes, who had a good reason: he's the husband of Kavanagh, Amis' former agent. Another was A.S. Byatt, whose novel Possession was published by Jonathan Cape, who also brought out Amis' previous novels. "I don't see why I should subsidize his greed," said Byatt, "simply because he has a divorce to pay for and has just had all his teeth redone." The dental work...
...went to New York and started like everyoneelse, beating the pavement, trying to see agentsand seeing if I could get an agent or getsomething," he said...
...alarm goes off...I want to sleep. OK, OK Reenie, get up. It is imperative that you uncover this mystery. I call my sidekick and photographer, Secret Agent Koichi...