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...foreseeable future and probably forever, there will be unremarkable-looking men poking around English factories or East-bloc offices, busily ferreting out farm reports, industrial blueprints and highway maps, while British or Hungarian agents keep an eye on them. From the tons of material they gather, occasionally???but only very occasionally???something will emerge that will make the head man in Langley, Va., or Dzerzhinsky Square in Moscow reach for his direct line to the White House or the Kremlin...
...once or twice during its 200-odd pages comes so close to the ridiculous as to border on the sublime. After all, Carley is a paranoic?whether or not he is an intellectual Christ. But for all that, it is an original, vivid novel. In detail, its realism fails occasionally??? especially in dialogue?but the total effect of its realism is good. It is not to be recommended to the Victorian-minded. Its subject, honestly treated, precludes that...
...lived the foul Lizard, Villain Number One ?and Saint Jimmy, who was just Tiny Tim grown up and wild about doing good to everybody. There also came Hugh Edwards?man of mystery?fleeing from the shadow of a crime?and, of course, Sonora Jack, the outlaw, dropped in occasionally???and Natachee, a philosophic Indian, was always monologuing his way about the crags?in fact, now and then, the good old canon got so cluttered up with characters there wasn't room enough left to swing a mountain lion...
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