Word: asia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Best and the Brightest, seemed to be a test of two political systems in a political war, and he preferred "our system." Admitting his failure, the failure of the press and many others at the time to see the atrocities the United States government would commit in Southeast Asia, Halberstam arrived at a different conclusion by 1962--that our handling of Vietnam was doomed, and that the government was on the "wrong side of history." "American optimism," he says, "was clearly mindless." The U.S. government had the wrong sense of the people, while the Vietcong knew all too well...
...Butterfield, The New York Times' East Asia correspondent, is well known for his penetrating analysis of events in China on the basis of such salient symbols as Chairman Hua's hair style. He outdid himself this week, though, with a story on Vietnam apparently culled from a month-old speech by that country's prime minister...
...opportunity for vengeance occurs one afternoon when attention is drawn to a "gold seam"?a flood of currency?spilling out of Moscow and into Southeast Asia. Is it bankrolling enemy operatives? Is it used to push heroin in the People's Republic of China? Is Drake Ko, an amoral Hong Kong millionaire, a conduit? Drake's brother Nelson is one of the two dozen most important men in Peking and perhaps also a Karla mole, one even more important than Haydon had been. Are the siblings estranged? Or is their relationship thicker then blood? Smiley backtracks through archives...
...aging adventurer is pointed to Hong Kong, then to Southeast Asia and programmed intrigues?and unexpected sellouts. The Schoolboy's odyssey is both official and personal. As colleagues perish, as the enigmatic Ko brothers become more comprehensible, as loyalties dissolve, Jerry finds himself questioning his own motives and, finally, his orders, the discipline of his "tradecraft." The object of his sudden, intense affection is Drake Ko's beautiful mistress, Lizzie Worthington, an involvement that jeopardizes Westerby's entire mission. The carefully engineered defection of Nelson Ko becomes a ploy within a ploy with apocalyptic result...
...they carry the air of verisimilitude?and that is enough. The author is, after all, not a master spy but a master spy novelist. His success at simulation comes as much from research as from instinct. For The Honourable Schoolboy, for example, Cornwell made five trips to Southeast Asia. Pinned down by automatic weapons fire in Cambodia, he dived under a car and coolly noted his impressions on file cards...