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They had me, hook, line, and sinker...

Author: By Philip M. Rubin, | Title: Selling Our Bodies | 7/10/1990 | See Source »

Hofstra added three more runs to the margin, while Schlegel easily handled the Crimson batters, keeping them constantly guessing with an effective sinker that nicely complemented her fastball...

Author: By Mick Stern, | Title: Listless Batswomen Continue Skid, 3-1, 5-1 | 4/13/1990 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spooked by a Crumbling Wall | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

...happen. On Tuesday night, TJ won another game and started another season. Hey, if the sinker can still sink...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: TJ, The Ageless Wonder | 4/6/1989 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Incomplete Angler | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

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