Word: sabered
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...Saber and Bond also share a masochistic taste for cold showers. But where 007 likes his champagne chilled and his women hot, Saber is a devout Moslem who takes his lemonade without sugar and says "no" in Arabic, English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. "Cover yourself," he admonishes one toothsome hussy, "you look like a French prostitute." In No Phantoms for Tel Aviv, the delectable Amalia coos, "I have everything you could want," as she attempts to steal a tape recording from him. Snaps Saber: "I have other things to do." He has not been nicknamed "Son of God" for nothing...
...Saber series is the work not of an Arab but of a French writer who goes under the pen name Yousef Khader. Explaining his anonymity in a letter to the Algerian newspaper El Moujhaid, the author said: "These days it is extremely dangerous to denounce the criminal aims of imperialists and Zionists. I cannot reveal my true identity for security reasons...
...Open. Saber is not everybody's idol, even in the Arab world. El Moujhaid's literary critic found the books "lacking in style and humor" and decided that author and hero "ludicrously underestimate the caliber of Israeli agents." But Arabs are momentarily short of other heroes, and so SM-15's cult is growing...
After all, who but Mourad Saber sleeps with one eye open against the militarist, fascist Zionists? Who else could uncover a Central American conspiracy linking the United Fruit Co. and B'nai B'rith? Who else could resist the sensual, calculating Israeli agent Judith Hertz ("You have the body of a goddess but the soul of a devil")? Who else could interrupt an African chase to lecture streetwalkers in Lourenço Marques on the evils of colonialism...
...Mourad Saber could steel himself to the charms of Asmaa, daughter of his trustworthy Saudi Arabian assistant? As she served Saber fish soup, "her dress had an outrageously low neckline; her shoulders were bare almost to her breasts. Mourad was not made of wood; he blushed and a shiver went down his spine. 'Asmaa,' he said sternly, 'you lack reserve...