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...when it comes to his books, there's a desire in him to mean something. He talks seriously about John Steinbeck and John le Carr??--The Little Drummer Girl "has had more of an influence on me than any other work of suspense"--and Truman Capote. Grisham read In Cold Blood twice last year. "It's a beautiful book; it's mesmerizing; it's a classic. But there are times when I would read something that Capote wrote, and I'd say"--he makes a face. "Just, you know, I wouldn't say it that...
...blazer, black Armani tie and blue Joseph Abboud shirt. Finder, 47, uses that camouflage to slip in and out of the corporate environment, where he researches gripping thrillers set among the world of executive suites and water coolers. "Joseph Finder is doing for the business thriller what John le Carr?? did for the spy thriller," says Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point, "moving it from the level of simple genre to something more complex and ultimately satisfying...
...right. Those cheery tourists need only have peered out of their French Quarter hotel-room windows to see the ugly and abject poverty on full display at the squalid Iberville housing projects (average annual income of its 833 households: $7,279), sitting just next door to the Vieux Carr?? off Canal Street. If the visitors had taken a few steps beyond Tulane University and the nearby Garden District mansions, they would have found themselves smack-dab in the middle of a ghetto choked with rudimentary shotgun houses, dilapidated housing projects and living conditions that seem only slightly better than those...
...answers: He has been pretty busy, playing intellectual types like Carl Jung and Ibsen's Brand onstage. He does not encourage the whole star thing. And, at 42, he's back in style as film's most winning lost soul. The Constant Gardener, an exhilarating take on John Le Carr??'s novel, by Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles (City of God) and screenwriter Jeffrey Caine, is one of five Fiennes films to be released in 2005 (see box). He's a decadent art historian in Chromophobia (still awaiting a U.S. distributor), an upper-class satire that involved three...
That roiling, starving continent at first seems a backdrop to familiar Le Carr?? chicanery. Justin has brought his bride Tessa, a fierce do-gooder, to Kenya, where he resumes his job in the embassy and she goes off crusading--to what end, Justin knows not. After her death, he must confront the forces that ended her life and are threatening his. That's when he discovers how genial manners can conceal hearts of darkness...