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...years ago, threatened with a clampdown by an angry Congress, airlines promised to improve their customer service and reliability. Yet within the next few weeks, the Transportation Department's inspector general is expected to report that the airlines have failed to live up to all their pledges. Even though their scheduling patterns and booming growth contribute to the mess, it's not all the airlines' fault. Bigger solutions are needed. Next month the U.S. Chamber of Commerce will convene a national summit to ask what can be done to solve the crisis. Right now, we offer five proposals...
...Saturday morning in June 1998, homicide Inspector Jose Afonso Coelho of the Lisbon police is notified that the nude body of a teenage girl has been found on a nearby beach. Along with Carlos Pinto, his new partner, Coelho begins to investigate and quickly uncovers some interesting complications. The victim, Catarina Sousa Oliveira, was the daughter of a powerful, well-connected local attorney and his second wife and had already, despite her tender years, demonstrated a precocious fondness for sex and drugs. In fact, she had recently seduced her mother's lover and arranged the tryst so that the mother...
From this point on, Wilson's novel careers along on two tracks--the present investigation in Lisbon and past Nazi activities in Portugal--that slowly but inexorably converge. Inspector Coelho, of course, knows nothing about Klaus Felsen or his murky role on behalf of the Nazis, so the reader is always several steps ahead of the fictional detective. But they are only baby steps, because the connection between Felsen's story and the murder of Catarina Oliveira remains tantalizingly unclear for much of the novel...
...bound for the U.S. to more than 15%--amounting to almost six tons a month. When U.S. forces entered Haiti six years ago, they helped create a new civilian police force and coast guard. But the fledgling, threadbare agencies are a laugh to the cartels. U.S. officials, citing Haitian inspector general reports on officer misconduct, estimate that 85% of police supervisors--including four in Cap-Haitien who were recently caught with their own bulging satchels of dope cash--are in the pockets of traffickers. The Haitian coast guard has made a few impressive busts in recent years...
...Daisy (formerly Inspector Turnip...