Word: manhunt
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...plot is a manhunt, both literal and psychological. Magnus vanishes, leaving his wife Mary and friend and fellow spy Jack Brotherhood to deduce his whereabouts. There is a false trail that seems to lead to Scotland; in fact, Pym is holed up as Mr. Canterbury in a Devon boardinghouse. He is fairly sure that his superiors know he has passed secrets to a Communist agent, an old school chum. But Magnus is not trying to escape; he is only buying time to write his story so that his family and friends will know the truth. In addition, Rickie...
Sheriff Vaughn Killeen, leading the manhunt from a Boise command center, was unimpressed by Dallas' folk-hero image, garnished by two books and likely to be embellished in a movie that had been planned before his escape. Scoffed the sheriff: "The only difference between Dallas and other escapees is that he rides a horse and the others drive...
Police sealed off all exits to the city for hours after the shooting, called a national alert, and stepped up patrols at border crossings. It was the largest manhunt in Sweden's history, but as the week began, no arrests had been made. Police speculated that the murder might have been committed by any number of disaffected groups, from Croatian nationalists to West German terrorist factions...
...case of Mengele, the social contract that promises justice did seem to have failed. The manhunt had not been sufficiently intense; the secrets of Mengele's native town had not been probed; requests for extradition had been ignored. One can say of Mengele, "Good riddance," and yet still believe that an accidental drowning was too good...
...team of Brazilian forensic experts examined the Embu bones at Sao Paulo's Instituto Medico Legal to determine whether they were Mengele's or not, Tuma -- and others -- provided bits and pieces of fresh evidence in what could be the final act of a dramatic and drawn-out manhunt, a bitter trail of false identities, narrow escapes and never-ending questions. For more than a quarter-century, Nazi hunters from Israel and other countries had crisscrossed Europe and much of South America trying to track down the elusive "Angel of Death." Was the hunt finally about to end? Or would...