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Like fiddlers who want to conduct and comedians who yearn to play Hamlet, thriller writers sometimes show symptoms of hankering after respectability. John le Carre has handled this problem by surrounding his plots with a Jamesian density of details and implications. Now Len Deighton, known to millions of readers as the author of The Ipcress File and Funeral in Berlin, has, temporarily at least, given up suspense altogether...
...Berlin Game, Deighton...
...Berlin Game, Deighton...
FICTION 1. Pet Sematary, King (1 last week) 2. Who Killed the Robins Family?, Adler and Chastain (2) 3. Poland, Michener (3) 4. Berlin Game, Deighton(6) 5. Changes, Steel (5) 6. Moreta, McCaffrey (4) 7. The Story of Henri Tod, Buckley 8. Hollywood Wives, Collins (8) 9. The Wicked Day, Stewart (10) 10. The Name of the Rose...
...four days after his capture was followed by a move to a larger room and slightly better treatment. He saw a doctor, perused some 60,000 cards and letters that poured in from the U.S., and read books: Sidney Sheldon's Bloodline, James Michener's Chesapeake, Len Deighton's XPD, Robert Ludlum's The Parsifal Mosaic...