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...plot worthy of Spy Novelist John Le Carré, Tanase turned up last week, alive and well after hiding out in Brittany, a key player in a French counterespionage scheme that reportedly involved the Elysée Palace. It all began last April when a Rumanian intelligence colonel, who had spent eight years in France gathering sensitive industrial data, turned himself in to French authorities. The agent, Matei Haiducu, 45, told officials of the Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (the French secret service) that he had been ordered by Ceauşescu to kill Tanase and a second dissident...
Nonetheless, some banking experts maintain that the agreement will not deter insider trading, but merely force the illegal transactions to be conducted in other banking havens, such as Liechtenstein, Panama or the Caribbean. Says Paul Erdman, a bestselling financial novelist (The Crash of 79, The Last Days of America), who spent ten months in jail for violating Swiss financial laws: "Insider trading will just have to be done a little more cleverly...
...reactions to Sennett's Frog since its publication earlier this summer have also been somewhat ambiguous. Prize-winning Author Donald Barthelme praised it as "a most thoughtful meditation on the sociology of power," but the New York Times said that the "brilliant" Sennett "knows too much for a novelist." Sennett disputes the contradiction. He not only sees Frog as a counterpart to his previous book of social criticism, Authority (1980), but sees both as the beginning of an eight-part series (four of them novels) on the main emotional relations underlying modern society: authority, solitude, fraternity and ritual...
...have it, and women aren't. "Anything that sweats, or has sweated, or is about to sweat does not interest me sexually," says John McGrath, an Atlanta sportswriter. "I also have a hard time being attracted to anyone who can beat me up." Paul Corkery, a Los Angeles novelist, thinks the strong woman is chasing form without the function: "It's as if they're all in training for the Olympics. They're all muscled up with nowhere...
Such perceptions spare readers the task of puzzling them out. They short-circuit thought, plugging directly into prefabricated images. And they are by no means limited to young characters. The narrator of The Body, Gordon Lachance, shares King's age, 34, and occupation: he is a "bestselling novelist who is more apt to have his paperback contracts reviewed than his books." He tells of an adventure he had in 1960, when he was twelve; he and three friends set out to discover the body of a boy who has been reported missing from a neighboring town in southwestern Maine...