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...Fourth Protocol, Forsyth (1 last week...
...Back home, having my own office was considered normal protocol," he says, "But now, barring a bed case of Asian flu, I won't get one this side...
...know. Imagine, if you will, a mere servant attempting to love a real person. You never know, it might work out, but only when the lady or gentleman in question is not really a lady or gentleman. At every opportunity, Porter shows Gaston and Maria unable to fathom the protocol of the Penthouse...
...Secret Service will drive Andrei Gromyko through the gates of the White House to make sure he arrives safe and sound for his meeting with Ronald Reagan. Both the President's military aide and the chief of protocol will be out under the West Wing Portico to add dignity when Old Grom, as he is semiaffectionately called by some diplomats, sets his feet on White House ground again after a six-year absence...
...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...