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...Heflin is solid as the vengeful detective who turns out to have heart. But Thiefs best value is in the minor roles: John Davis Chandler, an ash-blond menace with a voice like a stripped gear, who seems to have difficulty getting his plum-size eyes open; Zekial Marko (who also wrote both the book and screenplay) an engaging loser who would obviously do anything to anybody; Tammy Locke a fearsome moppet, capable of a look of existential bafflement when her father won't let her dry the dishes-and of cheerful chuckles when Daddy and his friends...
...strong wave of change toward socialism is sweeping almost every nation, Marko Nikejic, Yugoslavia's ambassador to the United States, told a Harvard-Radcliffe International Relations Club meeting last night...
Mysterious Trio. The man who is destined to win the Grail through his design for a festival pavilion is of a different, tougher breed. Marko Zuckerman's eyes speak, "Mongol-wise," of historic rapacity and plunder. His past is a mystery; all that is known of him is that he fled Hungary after World War II, showed up briefly in Paris with a big wad of money, then settled in Britain to amass more...
...frivolous Londoners, Marko seems just another glamorous eccentric, sent to amuse and thrill them with his daring antics. When, one evening, Marko appears at a reception and a rough voice bellows from the audience, "What about Varga, Lener, Goldfink?", everyone rocks with laughter at what seems an inexplicable joke. But as the months pass and the unreal festival approaches, the names of the mysterious trio keep echoing through London. Finally, a bomb of accusation bursts, in the form of the question: Did Marko make his first millions by selling his three compatriots to the Gestapo...
Along with an answer to the question, the reader also gets Marko's rationalization. "I am not my brother's keeper," he tells Captain Curtis. "I am interested in survival ... I do.not want to become a suburb of Cairo, or Moscow. A Chinese comfort-station ... I want to defend myself ... I want...