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...cover of “Body of Lies” reads in small font “A Novel.” The omission of “Spy” is telling. This is not a Spy Novel in the vein of Graham Greene and John Le Carr??; it’s just a pedestrian novel that’s even less interesting than the hundreds of cookie cutter thrillers that crowd airport bookstores...
...over London, while colleagues traveled to Moscow. "This continues to be an extremely complex investigation, and detectives are pursuing many lines of inquiry," said a police spokeswoman. Litvinenko's excruciating and sinister death and the swirl of international politics around it make this a case worthy of John le Carr??, but as the police insist, the classic questions of any murder inquiry still apply: Scotland Yard, in short, is looking for motive, means and opportunity...
...folds her son’s old clothes for Goodwill. But Carr manages to fumble, not at all emphasizing the cruelty in the exchange, and the audience hardly realizes the scene’s maudlin undercurrent before it ends. While Anderman’s performance is more skilled than Carr??s, Nat fades into extraneousness by the end of the play. She is the kind of air-headed mother who their children hate to love, but Anderman lacks the reasonable core than would have given her some weight in the story.Troy Deutsch as Jason, the teen-age driver...
...Markus Wolf, 83, suave spymaster known as the "man without a face" for his ability to elude photographers during most of his 34-year reign over the foreign-intelligence division of the Stasi, East Germany's dreaded secret police; in Berlin. Rumored to be the model for John le Carr??'s shadowy Karla (a suggestion the author has denied), Wolf placed his 4,000 spies in such enemy territory as NATO headquarters, cannily converted West German agents to his team, and famously touted the "Romeo method"--the wooing of lonely government secretaries to gain access to confidential files. Among...
...many people, from Le Carr?? to David Halberstam to Dostoyevsky to Robert Penn Warren...