Word: fogproof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This will not do. Horowitz wears tails, Roger Clemens a Red Sox uniform, and thriller writers, according to tradition, are caparisoned in creased outerwear, lurking beside bridge abutments in the fog. Archer is radiant and fogproof. With a lesser talent, this miscalculation could have been fatal. After all, when one of Eric Ambler's down-at-the-heels protagonists makes a dodgy border crossing, the tension is palpable. Readers know that if the policeman in the greasy uniform were a shade more intelligent, he would realize that the hero's accent is bogus, his passport fake. An author who sees...
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