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This account certainly feels factual, but it is fiction, the opening scene of Author John le Carré's disturbing new thriller. The book promises to raise both hair and hackles. Le Carré has plunged directly into one of the most anguished and impassioned conflicts on earth. His characters are invented, to be sure, but they are Israelis and Palestinians, locked in a struggle that produces daily headlines, committed to opposing causes that can make otherwise civilized people murderous. Expropriating the contemporary Middle East into a novel is literally asking for trouble. What writer could keep such demons...
...court's account of Prime's life as a "mole" reads like a chapter from a John le Carré novel. According to a statement Prime gave police, he first offered his services to the Soviet Union in 1968, when he was stationed with the Royal Air Force in West Berlin. The Soviets equipped Prime with a miniature camera, a briefcase with a secret compartment, coding and decoding materials, money (a rather modest ?10,000 over the years) and the names of two contacts, Igor and Valya. After leaving the R.A.F., Prime returned to London later that year...
...home to America, like it did to Peoria, as a local issue this year. This was particularly evident in Michigan, where the 16.1% unemployment rate is the highest in the nation. In Pontiac, where the devastated auto industry has created a whopping 31.7% unemployment rate, former Democratic Congressman Robert Carr handily won a rematch against the Republican who upset him in 1980, Jim Dunn. "Of course this was a referendum on Reaganomics," said Carr the day after the election. "Voters don't want to bear the burden of this experiment any longer." Agreed Dunn, whose literature avoided even mentioning...
DIED. Edward Hallett Carr, 90, eminent historian and Cambridge don whose 14-volume History of Soviet Russia, published between 1950 and 1978, chronicled the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and the decade afterward; in Cambridge, England...
...things keep going the way they have been lately, the next John Le Carré novel might feature not agents from the British Secret Service or the CIA but spies from the gray-flanneled ranks of International Business Machines Corp...