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...Milwaukee, Wis., had reverted to a state of lethal??chaos. A Special Olympian is killed for his wallet as he waits for a bus. An 11-year-old girl is gang-raped by as many as 19 men. A woman is strangled, her body found burning in a city-owned garbage cart. Twenty-eight people are shot, four fatally, over a holiday weekend...
Theodore Roosevelt had carried the lethal??dose of morphine with him for years. He had taken it to the American West, to the African savanna and, finally, down the River of Doubt--a twisting tributary deep in the Amazon rain forest. The glass vial was small enough to tuck into a leather satchel or slip into his luggage, nearly invisible beside his books, his socks and his eight extra pairs of eyeglasses. Easily overlooked, it was perhaps the most private possession of one of the world's most public...
...Carré, is unparalleled for "sheer narrative thrust: everything has a material connection. There's no style, just fact, fact, fact." He has a special affection for an imagined cast: "I can see myself, like Balzac, inquiring after them on my deathbed." Such admiration can be as seductive?and as lethal???as a spy's gentleness. For despite its style and tongue-and-groove plotting, The Honourable Schoolboy sometimes displays a Balzacian tendency to turn urges into passions, to exaggerate expression into melodrama. Moreover, facts, facts, facts are better left to the journalist-reprobates. Le Carré's long suit...
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