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...Len Deighton and John le Carre have written such spy stories, and so did the late Ian Fleming. The literary chromosomes of Graham Greene, C. P. Snow and Vladimir Nabokov are also traceable in this deliberate hybrid. But Anthony Burgess is not trying to imitate them. He has never written an unoriginal novel or an unlaminated one. Every Burgess surface conceals another, like Salome's veils, and they must all peel off to expose the author's naked core. In this exceptional book, subtitled An Eschatological Spy Novel, the reader quickly discovers that Burgess has much more...
...charge, passed himself off as a representative of the cardinal's office, kept pumping her for details which he needed, he said, to plan supplies for the survivors. On hearing that Millionaire Fight Promoter Tex Rickard was seriously ill, Romanoff promptly rang up Mrs. Rickard. "This is Governor Len Small of Illinois," he intoned. "I am distressed to hear of the illness of my old friend Tex. Tell me, Mrs. Rickard, how is he?" "He's dying, Governor," the tearful spouse replied, and Romanoff had another scoop...
...BILLION DOLLAR BRAIN by Len Deighton. 312 pages. Pufnam...
...Len Deighton's spy stories are superior matriculants in the Fleming school, and can be swallowed like Chinese food. They give great pleasure while being consumed, but in an hour or two the consumer is hungry again. No one, probably not even Deighton, can follow a Deighton plot. Like its forerunners, The Ipcress File and the bestselling Funeral in Berlin, this one winds along a serpentine of intrigue that defies both credibility and comprehension. It involves an anonymous secret agent, a fetching and murderous Finnish girl, a linear computer that can call people on the telephone, and a clutch...
...Decca). Len Barry is the new wavy-haired, high-tenor hitmaker from Philadelphia who specializes in puppy-love lieder. Falling in love, he explains, is as elementary as 1-2-3, or ABC. Another of his hits, Like a Baby, is about a youthful couple. "When you smile, you're so adorable, so infantile," he croons. Seems she smiles just like a baby, feels just like a baby in his arms, and makes him cry just like a baby...