Word: northcott
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Quayle, as the series says, "expresses approval and glee" at some of his wife's "mischievous" potshots, then he is likely to be delighted by the political barbs she has included in her soon-to-be-published thriller, Embrace the Serpent. Written with her sister Nancy Northcott, the book features imperialist Russians and drug-running Arabs conspiring to replace a dead Castro with another evil Cuban dictator. Readers who can get past the book's clutter of cliches ("Even his fertile imagination hadn't truly conceived of the ecstasy of ultimate power"), arthritic prose ("Acknowledgment of those limitations...