Word: breakout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...breakout followed by only two days a more violent melee at the refugee processing center at Eglin Air Force Base in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., where 200 Cubans jumped the fence. Some of them threw rocks and bricks at military police. The police eventually corralled them and isolated 68 in a more secure compound...
Innocent Blood is James' so-called breakout novel. Her gloomy detective, Adam Dalgliesh, is absent, and the publishers have billed the book as "a major work of fiction." Commercially their hunch was right: Innocent Blood has been sold to the movies for $350,000, and the paperback rights went for $813,000. If it is not a thriller, neither is the new book a conventional novel; it depends solely on suspense for its sustained pace - and that is all to the good. The sad news is that the author has emphasized her real but riskier talent: writing about...