Word: daggers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...check. I turned it over and wrote my phone number on the back. "I've got to go now--but I'll be in touch," she rasped, leaving the brown-stone. In an effort to gain a favor for my consultant friends, I had just given a cloak-and-dagger stranger a blank check...
...come by way of a convention to which U.N. members would be expected to adhere. Proof of abuses might be hard to find and punishments still harder to determine and mete out, but at least spy agencies would have some incentive to decrease the scale of their cloak-and-dagger operations...
Tomorrow Is Another Country is an oddly bifurcated book. The first half is a splendid and original history of the cloak-and-dagger negotiations that led to Mandela's release in 1990. It is precisely the kind of tale that only a journalistic insider with trusted access to all the players could put together. The second half is less compelling: a more workmanlike, cut-and-paste retelling of the events since 1990, lacking the back-room detail and color that make the book's first half a page turner...
...wicked. It's enticing. It is, in fact, a beautifully calculated read, proving once again P.D. James' mastery of her craft. After the release of The Children of Men in 1993, the author's first non-mystery novel, some fans worried she might have abandoned the cloak-and-dagger genre for good. Original Sin proves them resoundingly wrong. Not only does it mark the return of James' ever-popular detective, Adam Dalgleish, it is one of the most mystery-like of her mysteries...
...Pearl Harbor, at least the Japanese Navy had the surprise-attack-dagger-in- the back thing going for it. Not so last night: the threat was transparently clear, the UNH all-senior line of Eric Flinton (7-7-14 coming in,) Eric Royal (5-7-12) and Nick Poole (4-10-14) being the most likely source of trouble for Tripp Tracy and the Crimson...