Word: sinker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...London Match, and then in Spy Hook, the beginning of a second trilogy, which has Samson under suspicion and on the run from his own colleagues. The current Spy Line sags just a bit, but it will lead, readers are assured, to resolution in a promised final thriller, Spy Sinker. Will Fiona and Samson retire to a cottage in Cornwall and argue over lunch? More important, will Deighton or anyone else find a menace to replace the Wall? Lite politics, whole-wheat pasta and the melting of the polar ice caps are all alarming, but they don't quite...
...happen. On Tuesday night, TJ won another game and started another season. Hey, if the sinker can still sink...
Instead of a pension, however, Samson now gets a whole new Deighton trilogy, beginning with Spy Hook. Line and Sinker are the titles of the projected other novels, suggesting an activity more passive and a lot murkier than tennis. In this new work, Deighton's temptingly baited plot lines run dark and deep. The first half offers more nibbles than bites as Samson discovers just how little his bosses want him to know about their intelligence operations...
...deal with a veritable flood of charity requests. "The past two years have been tough on me," she admits. "I get very lonely when he's out of town, and we never have enough time alone." Despite such gripes, Kaija remains "in love with the man, hook, line and sinker." Says she: "Husbands seem to be a disposable commodity in this day and age, but Eddie's like family to me. Like a brother. And you don't divorce your brother...
...opponent's last at-bat, the Giants were five behind Cincinnati and facing a four-game Reds series and maybe the end. But Pitcher Mike LaCoss, a Reds reject, shut Cincinnati down in the first game, and Atlee Hammaker, Mike Krukow and Kelly Downs followed suit. Adding the old sinker baller Rick Reuschel for seasoning, the Giants pulled away...