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...trendiest labels there, including Peel (skirts printed with cartographic motifs), and punk-inspired jewelry by Whore to the Core. tel: (1-604) 879 8595; twiggandhottie.com. EUGENE CHOO Both men's and women's wear are offered at this bright and airy clothing store, which brother and sister Kildare and Fiona Curtis have ran for nine years. But who is Eugene Choo? "I went to primary school with him," says Kildare. "I'm hooked on the idea that he might visit Vancouver, drive past and see his name in lights." tel: (1-604) 873 8874; eugenechoo.com. SMOKING LILY Once a scarf...
...EUGENE CHOO Both men's and women's wear are offered at this bright and airy clothing store, which brother and sister Kildare and Fiona Curtis have ran for nine years. But who is Eugene Choo? "I went to primary school with him," says Kildare. "I'm hooked on the idea that he might visit Vancouver, drive past and see his name in lights." Tel: (1-604) 873 8874; eugenechoo.com...
London Match brings Samson, the weather-beaten fieldman, back from Mexico City and Berlin to fester among intelligence bureaucrats in England. Stinnes must be debriefed if he is not a plant and foiled if he is. Samson, under suspicion because of Fiona's bad behavior, gets the assignment. He is impeded not so much by Stinnes and his ex-wife, though she is threatening to grab their children, as by his superiors. These careerists are, variously, twits, fops, climbers and pooh-bahs whose entire interest is in position, perks and, after they have dithered and muddled for a sufficient number...
...money on their Savile Row suits' and handmade shirts and Jermyn Street shoes, but they wore them with a careless scruffiness that was a vital part of their snobbery. A real English gentleman never tries; that was the article of faith." His complaints about silly and selfish women, notably Fiona's vacant sister and Volkmann's troublemaking wife, also deserve to be heard. But when all this grouchiness becomes the dominant element in the novel, the sensation of having been backed into a corner at a cocktail party is vivid...
...wonderfully gray and grainy, and the scenes between Volkmann and Samson in the first and third novels are authoritative. Samson's predicament is a metaphor of middle age, if anyone should need one. And in the days of constant spy revelations, the central questions continue to haunt: Was nasty Fiona the only mole in the British secret service? In this most devious of games, can any side truly win game, set and match? --By John Skow Best Sellers...