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Right on the Money (Simon & Schuster; 255 pages; $20) is the 22nd novel about investment-banker-cum-detective John Putnam Thatcher written under the pseudonym Emma Lathen by Mary Jane Latsis, an economist, and Martha Henissart, an attorney. All the plots center on financial skulduggery, and almost invariably the villain is the least developed principal character, typically a faceless mid-level manager who shows unrecognized ingenuity in concocting a scam. The team's prose is always easy and mildly amusing. While offering less psychological insight than the average TV sitcom, it convincingly conveys the general corporate mindset and the nubby...
...Carlos might have enlisted is Dieter Koenig, a.k.a. Bruno Schilling. Like the real-life Venezuelan terrorist, German-born Bruno is a ferrety connoisseur of chaos: And, like Carlos, Schilling is a vain, insatiable womanizer who has honed boudoir and Beretta skills in North Africa, France and Switzerland. In Paul Henissart's Margin of Error (Simon & Schuster; 334 pages; $10.95), the swaggering former Foreign Legionnaire is assigned to an operation called Grand Slam. Its aim is to assassinate Anwar Sadat and pave the way for a Soviet-managed coup in Cairo. The action takes Bruno, in the footsteps of Cain...
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