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...Mortal danger remains a remote but real possibility. Wilkinson collars a drunk driver of awesome size and manages to coax him to jail. Later that night, the prisoner wakes up in his cell and rips the toilet out of the wall with his bare hands. At his trial, the man explains what happened: "A little energized particle broke off a star in a galaxy somewhere far away and shot down and came through the open window, and when it hit the toilet, BOOM, the whole thing blew up. I could have been killed...
Such moments adroitly balance the exotic and the familiar; an adventure that will shake Moscow and Washington also leads to a personal discovery, and both results seem equally important. In his fourth novel, Carroll again reveals the commercial instincts that made his Mortal Friends (1978) a best seller. In addition, this book reveals a serious novelist behind the popular entertainer. Like Graham Greene and John le Carre, Carroll brings global strife and problems home to hearts and minds, their points of origin. -By Paul Gray
Brown is what bettors would call a mortal lock to win the Democratic nomination. The latest Field poll has the Governor running about 45 points ahead of his nearest rival, Novelist Gore Vidal, 56, who refers to Brown as "Lord of the Flies"-a snide reference to last summer's Mediterranean fruit-fly crisis. At the moment, Brown trails all three top prospective G.O.P. opponents in the polls. However, the Governor has a $2 million campaign fund and is a formidable vote getter when he steers clear of moonbeam topics, a mistake he makes far less often than...
...remain the mortal enemy...
...P.L.O., in Cambodia and Afghanistan. Since the bomb fell on Hiroshima, mankind has fought roughly 125 wars (of one sort or another), including the longest one in U.S. history. But all of these collisions fell short of the nuclear. They thereby seemed weirdly permissible: as sins, venial, not mortal. They were not, after all, the utmost we had to deal out in fatality. We did not drop what we might have dropped onto Hanoi. By this reasoning, nonnuclear bloodshed is forbearing and almost virtuous...