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...chap who hates his job and doesn't care what kind of dry vermouth they put in his martinis, is back with his spectacles and his non-U English accent in Billion Dollar Brain. So is Michael Caine to play him in yet another thriller by Novelist Len Deighton. But in this third outing the law of diminishing returns has begun catching up with the team...
Besides the nine incumbents, others who have filed for the Council are Thomas Danehy, James W. Caragianes, Michael J. McCann, Leonard J. Russell, William F. McConnell, Deighton C. Ashby, Manuel Rogers, Ralph W. Ward, Pasquale R. Coppola, Mrs. Ackerman, and former school committeeman Joseph E. Maynard...
...Deighton and John le Carre have written such spy stories, and so did the late Ian Fleming. The literary chromosomes of Graham Greene, C. P. Snow and Vladimir Nabokov are also traceable in this deliberate hybrid. But Anthony Burgess is not trying to imitate them. He has never written an unoriginal novel or an unlaminated one. Every Burgess surface conceals another, like Salome's veils, and they must all peel off to expose the author's naked core. In this exceptional book, subtitled An Eschatological Spy Novel, the reader quickly discovers that Burgess has much more...
...Billion Dollar Brain, Deighton...
...Billion Dollar Brain, Deighton...