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...killed. In See Charlie Run (Bantam; 278 pages; $15.95), Muffin is back managing a defection that almost no one wants to see succeed. Alas, it is harder to imagine a return of the investigative journalist who digs through the smoldering ashes of two-decades-old news in David Quammen's The Soul of Viktor Tronko (Doubleday; 350 pages; $17.95). The story is built on three staples of spy fiction: the fact that Lee Harvey Oswald spent time in the Soviet Union and must have had contact with the KGB; the inability of the CIA, whenever confronted with a Soviet defector...
...History in New York. This summer we also discovered a skull, apparently of a man, but of very peculiar formation, which we have not as yet identified. It is quite large and in an excellent state of preservation. Undoubtedly the Council would be interested in this also. DAVID M. QUAMMEN...