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...parked my car outside Security Police headquarters, remembering past interrogations and harassments. Think Gershwin, I said to myself, as I had in those days 12 years ago, when mentally humming a piece of music helped ease the fear. During the last scary session with Colonel Andries van der Merwe in 1977, I had countered his aggression with the finale of Gershwin's Concerto in F. And now I had made an appointment with his successors to judge the extent of change among the dread Security Police in the new South Africa. Though I was no longer too scared...
...will remember, of course, that Bernard Samson, England's rough-cut intelligence agent in Berlin, was bamboozling communist Stasi operatives with great success until his beautiful and highborn wife Fiona defected to East Germany and set up shop as a KGB colonel, no less. This breach of marital etiquette caused Samson endless problems -- how to find a suitable nanny for the children, whether to marry his young mistress, how to prove that he himself was not a Soviet mole, and so on -- detailed moodily and lengthily in the two most recent novels of Deighton's double trilogy, Spy Hook...
...Sandberg, then to bring her to the U.S., and finally, after their five children were born, to give his wife one last look at home. One of the hazy bits in his story is how, before he emigrated, he knew of a tiny, unincorporated farm hamlet called Ellsworth (after Colonel Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth, the first Union officer killed in the Civil War). There were a few Dutch families in this rolling, forested country at the northern tip of Michigan's lower peninsula, but no Danes who might have written to say there were lumberjack jobs in the woods...
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...Grenada or Panama. It would almost certainly involve hundreds of thousands of people dying, soldiers and civilians alike. Generals like to talk of "surgical strikes," but surgical strikes usually hit the wrong targets -- like the misguided air raid on Libya in 1986 that wrecked the French embassy and killed Colonel Gaddafi's daughter...