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Adam J. Augustinski '86, another Lowell House council representative, will serve on the Athletics Committee. And R. Scott Falk '85 and Preston W. Brooks '86 were elected to the Library Committee...
...looking for a pattern, Sir Nigel," Forsyth's hero, Agent John Preston, reports to his boss. "It's all I can look for. A pattern of entries and exits by the same passport number. . . . It's not much, but it's all I have...
...doom that Preston is trying to avert is fearsome enough. Some especially nasty types in the Kremlin have hatched a plot to smuggle a small nuclear bomb into England in pieces, assemble the thing and set it off near an American cruise-missile base. The physical damage will not be devastating, except in the immediate area of a few square miles. But the Soviets hope that the explosion will be taken for that of a U.S. nuke gone haywire. Leftists and peaceniks will then redouble their anti-American baying, and the Labor Party, dominated by pro-Soviet operatives, will take...
...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...
Still, even a cardboard hero should not be fatal in the reality-avoidance game. The reader is willing to spend a couple of evenings in Preston's numbing company if doing so will let him put off thinking about that oral surgery or those dunning letters from school. What overstrains Forsyth's vehicle to the point of collapse, when other thrillers no less dim clatter on dependably to their conclusions, may be that the author has weighty ideological points to make. His first intention is not to write an entertainment but to preach a political sermon. Its burden...