Word: sleepers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fitting that the heroine of the author's fine, quietly melancholy second book, Naked Sleeper (HarperCollins; 235 pages; $23), should share her predecessor's vocation, for she too seems compelled to intensify her sense of disconnect. Though Nona never leaves her native Manhattan, she teaches English to lonely foreigners who, just like her, are lost souls in a land of plenty. Abandoned as a child by her father, Nona at middle age finds herself in what is for her an uncomfortable place: a safe, happy marriage to a man who probably won't leave. Like a girl in a beautiful...
...kind of perp to spend his time in the joint pumping iron or tattooing his knuckles, traitor ALDRICH AMES has hit the books instead. Alas, WILLIAM SAFIRE's new novel, Sleeper Spy, was not to the former CIA man's liking; it so irked him that he knocked out a review. The Hill, a congressional weekly, heard that the review was circulating and, given Ames' unique body of knowledge, offered to publish it (for no fee). "Safire uses heavy-duty cardboard for his characters," writes Ames, adding that the plot is "preposterous." But Safire isn't hurt. "It's always...
Although the overall concept and design are superb, Lucinda Hughey's choreography severely drags 'The Nightengale' down. Moments between Thrussell and Suarez let the piece lapse as the choreography merely bores the audience. No doubt, blame also belongs to Thrussell's performance, a real sleeper compared to Suarez's. Showing power or mystery as the Emperor, he has cold precision of a machine, a charm already claimed by the Mechanical Nightengale...
From the CIA's point of view, Martynov's importance lay in his potential as a sleeper agent who might rise through the ranks and prove useful in the future. After Ames betrayed him, however, the KGB ordered him to return to Moscow in November 1985. Martynov told his wife and his two young children that he would be back in Washington shortly. Ten days later, Natalia received a note from her husband asking her to come back to Moscow with their son and daughter. As soon as their plane landed, Natalia realized that her husband was in trouble...
...publishing sleeper of 1993 proved to be, rather surprisingly, a , translation from the Danish. Peter Hoeg's Smilla's Sense of Snow enchanted reviewers and book buyers alike with its suspense -- a wise woman detective tries to track down a child's murderer -- and its eerie rendering of the landscapes and atmosphere of Greenland. This intense but accessible philosophical thriller spurred considerable interest in what Hoeg, 37, would do for an encore...