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...chronicled his adventures, syndicated in more than 500 newspapers, until retiring in 1977; in Woodstock, Ill. Gould drew his original inspiration from Prohibition-era gangsterism and the new folk heroes of law enforcement: J. Edgar Hoover's G-men. Gould's wonderfully nasty, physiognomically named villains--Flattop, the Mole, Pruneface, the Brow--never got the better of his snap-brimmed hero...
Exploits at sea are complemented by onshore skulduggery. A mole in the Kremlin tips off the CIA to Ramius' intentions. The agency, the Navy and the White House then concoct a scheme to deceive the Kremlin into thinking that Red October has exploded in a nuclear accident when in fact the U.S. has blown up one of its own obsolete boomers. The denouement has Soviet and American nuclear subs playing a game of chicken that stops just short of unleashing World...
...August 1983 the company tried to smuggle the contested documents out of the U.S. in two steamer trunks aboard a Swissair jet, but customs officers intercepted them at New York's Kennedy Airport after apparently being alerted by a mole in Rich's organization. At one point, in order to avoid court fines, Rich and Green hastily changed the name of their U.S. subsidiary from Marc Rich International to Clarendon and arranged a secret sale of the company to a shareholder in their Swiss firm...
...works that have borrowed on the Philby affair, the most successful has been John Le Carre's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, a maze-like thriller that details the entrapment and confession of a double agent. It was Le Carre who gave currency to the word "mole," a term denoting a traitor implanted deep in an intelligence network that is now a fixed part of espionage jargon. And while Le Carne and others like him explore the professional side of the celebrated case, others concentrate on the story's personal dimensions. This summer's highly acclaimed film, Another Country, based...
...preach a political sermon. Its burden is that leftists and peaceniks really are fools whose habitual prating endangers civilization. Forsyth puts forward this view, at the cost of stopping all narrative action, in a twelve-page position paper. It is supposedly a memo from the real-life mole Kim Philby to the head of the Soviet Communist Party...