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That's right: Ray works for the CIA gathering information about local political operatives, in particular a brilliant, charismatic local doctor. (Poor, hot and ravaged by AIDS, Rush's Botswana practically vibrates with political instability.) This isn't just a whim on the author's part: Mortals comes with the whole special-ops toy chest, including secret signals, micro-recorders, coded transmissions and even a violent and extended mission into the bush. This could have the effect of cleaving the novel into two incompatible halves--a portrait of a marriage and a political thriller--but Rush merges the two successfully...
...fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism." JAYSON BLAIR, former New York Times reporter, who resigned from the newspaper after the discovery of numerous mistakes and fabrications in stories he had written...
Friends and colleagues describe a brilliant man who is overburdened with commitments but manages to tackle them all with a wise-cracking sense of humor and a friendly attitude...
This disappointing debut, however, would be an anomaly in Verba’s career here, where he has been embraced as a funny, amiable and brilliant professor...
Donald M. Gleason ’53, a classmate of Verba’s at James Madison, describes him “a brilliant young man [and] a very hard worker...