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Probably one of the first spy-novel fans to become intrigued with John le Carré's new bestseller, The Honourable Schoolboy, was TIME Hong Kong Correspondent Bing Wong. In fact, he got involved with the book and author that are the subjects of this week's cover story well before Le Carré-David Cornwell, that is-began to write his tale of British intelligence and Far Eastern intrigue. Wong and Cornwell met in the summer of 1975 in Hong Kong. As Wong recounts, Cornwell "picked my brain" for background detail. Last October, when Cornwell returned...
...piece on Cornwell was the work of Senior Editor Stefan Kanfer, who wrote the story; London Correspondent Dean Fischer, who interviewed the novelist; and Reporter-Researcher Anne Hopkins, who did what would be described in Le Carré's spy argot as the "burrowing"-the background research. Fischer talked with Cornwell for 16 hours, both in London and at the author's farmhouse overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Cornwell lived up to his reputation as a rugged interview only when he jauntily insisted that Fischer join him on a "forced march" of three miles over the cliffs near...
Kanfer, who also met Cornwell in England, had a different surprise. "Like everyone else, I used to wish that Le Carré would write a serious book," he says. "But then one day I realized that he was writing serious books-they just happened to be in the espionage genre...
...that sold for $3,500 a decade ago now commands $17,500. The price has risen $2,000 just since May, and Douglas Wiles, a Miami housing economist, predicts a further $4,000 increase by year's end. In the northern Virginia suburbs outside Washington, D.C., Builder Edward Carr paid $7,442 for a quarter-acre lot in 1969; now the price is $23,000. That accounts for almost half of the rise in the price that Carr charges for his four-bedroom homes, from $40,950 to $74,823 (he also has taken away the carport and fireplace...
...fire brought Yonkers police to interview Glassman, who told them about the hate letters. Yonkers detectives quickly linked those letters to the similar ones Carr had reported receiving-and they informed Glassman that Berkowitz was the probable letter writer. At that time Yonkers police knew what type of car Berkowitz was driving and its license number, and they began to suspect that Berkowitz might be Son of Sam. It was three days later that the New York police task force hunting the killer learned Yonkers authorities were pursuing Berkowitz as a potentially dangerous neighborhood crank...