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Reality is nasty stuff, tending as it does toward onrushing appointments for root-canal surgery and tuition bills. So it is extremely sad to report that one of the century's most dependable mechanisms for reality avoidance, the many-times-retold spy thriller whose gray secret is the mole in the British intelligence service, is in deep trouble. This is not really the fault of Frederick Forsyth, whose prose and plotting are no clunkier than those of other literary spy masters who borrowed the mole genre after John le Carré was through with...
...puzzling why the villainy, and Preston's dogged efforts to cope, should fail as escape literature. The plot of The Fourth Protocol, including the burrowings of the mole who tries to foil Preston, is no more stale or unbelievable than most. Freshness and credibility, in any case, are not requirements. Perhaps the reason is that Preston is without a side. Le Carré would have given him a faithless wife, or at least an ingrown toenail, to tease the mind with antiheroic irony...
...Silbey and other staffers for more than two months in 1982. "I taped [Silbey] every time I talked to him," he claims. During that period, Sharer was working with the committee on two investigations unrelated to the Donovan case, a role that permitted him to act as a mole...
...season finale; not even the actors know which one will be telecast and which are decoys. Scripts are tightly guarded and writers frequently destroy their notes from story conferences to prevent leaks. Reporters from the national tabloids have been known to pay up to $50,000 for a mole to give them advance details on a cliffhanger...
...forces to conquer the oil-rich southern coast of the Pesian Gulf. Bored with life in Cambridge, Webster allows himself to be captured by the Paks so he can implement the plan. Soon the CIA gets into the act, as well as a Capitol Hill headline-seeker, a KGB mole in the White House, and an ex-leftist ex-CIA agent "with eyes like faded blueberry stains on a white table-cloth." Webster and a CIA killer with a heart of gold decide that GULFSCENE III must be stopped...