Word: kingsley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ANTI-DEATH LEAGUE, by Kingsley Amis. The nervous neutralism of the cold war provides Amis with a theme for this slightly outrageous suspense story...
...ANTI-DEATH LEAGUE, by Kingsley Amis. The nervous neutralism of the cold war provides Amis with a theme for this slightly outrageous suspense story...
...ANTI-DEATH LEAGUE, by Kingsley Amis. A sprightly cold war suspense story that keeps the reader looking so long in the wrong direction that he almost forgets the ending is not entirely credible...
...ANTI-DEATH LEAGUE, by Kingsley Amis. A lively spy story that hovers in the nervous neutralism of the cold...
...perhaps merely confident, about security and also about such matters as psychoanalysis, theology, homosexuality and alcoholism. The story begins in a private mental hospital, where mixed-up army officers are vetted, but the focus shifts to a nearby military installation engaged on a sinister project known as Operation Apollo. Kingsley Amis, whose The James Bond Dossier shows a theoretical as well as a practical interest in secret agentry, plays fair with the reader. Atomic rifle ammunition for issue rifles seems to be the secret of Apollo; the suspected leaks include a friendly neighborhood nymphomaniac, a particularly nasty psychiatrist, an alcoholic...