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EARLY on the morning of January 27, 1980, two Austalian policemen patrolling a lonely stretch of highway came upon a parked Mercedes sedan. Approaching the car, they saw a man slumped over in the driver's seat with a rifle slug in the head, the victim of an apparent suicide...
Middle-aged married female readers will be unsympathetic and even gleeful about Sherman's downfall. He is driving his young mistress Maria Ruskin home from Kennedy International Airport and feeling on top of the world when he mistakenly turns off the highway and gets lost in the South Bronx. There...
"The operative question is how long the Germans and the Japanese will loan us money," Thurow said, adding that when when they stop payments, "Toyotas will be priced like Mercedes. Mercedes will be priced like Lamborghinis, and Lamborghinis will be priced like an MX missle." A declining dollar will make...
Those class lines, however, are not so easy to cross. Pacot, a run-down but still chic neighborhood, is three miles and another world away from La Saline's slums. In a corner here and there, the brittle, corrupt surface of Papa Doc's Haiti still glitters. Guard dogs run...
Moore races the reader through a series of crepuscular turns with the smooth efficiency of a Mercedes on a rain-slicked street at night. The quiet operations of secret intelligence are this novel's method as well as its theme. And though The Color of Blood may, in the end...