Word: follettes
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...Rebecca, Follett...
...Firestarter, King (1 last week) 2. The Key to Rebecca, Follett (4) 3. Rage of Angels, Sheldon (2) 4. The Fifth Horseman, Collins & Lapierre (3) 5. The Tenth Commandment, Sanders (5) 6. Come Pour the Wine, Freeman 7. Shögun, Clavell 8. The Hidden Target, Maclnnes 9. The Second Lady, Wallace 10. Music for Chameleons, Capote...
...Billy. He guns a BSA 350 motorcycle through the clotted streets of Cairo and chases his adversary in one memorable scene worthy of a Steve McQueen cop-pursuit flick. He also drinks a lot of gin. Humiliated and frustrated in his confrontations with the Egyptian Nazi sympathizers, he presents Follett's simple but valid editorial: "Yes. We're not very admirable, especially in our colonies, but the Nazis are worse . . . It is worth fighting. In England decency is making slow progress; in Germany it's taking a big step backward. Think about the people you love...
...Rebecca, Follett's 13th novel (several were written under pen names), combines the authentic tension of the times with breathless high adventure and breathers of low comedy. Sonja's Nile-blue bisexual capers aboard her houseboat Jihan do not exactly resemble the mild erotica enacted aboard Travis McGee's Busted Flush in Florida. And one wild street donnybrook introduces a hilarious Cairene Fagin whose thievery steals more scenes than secrets...
...Still, Follett's true strength remains an acute sense of geographical place, and the age-old knowledge that character is action. In Rebecca, as in Needle and Triple, he brilliantly reproduces a distant terrain, complete with sounds and smells and tribal rites. The most romantic of all the top espionage thriller writers, he understands and sensitively portrays the women who come in and out of his cold. When the belly dancer and the courtesan appear onstage, Rommel seems almost irrelevant...