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Because the N.Y.P.D. doesn't have the budget to send detectives around the country on a chase, Majeski had to track Abbott by telephone. He set up a command post in the basement of his Staten Island home. Using a nationwide network of law-enforcement contacts, he plotted Abbott's moves on a map of the U.S. Majeski's reading runs from works on psychology to Sherlock Holmes, and it served him well in his remote-control manhunt. So did In the Belly of the Beast. "All the clues to what he is, how he thinks, what...
Gilbert had been carrying false identification as "James Hackford" of Staten Island, N.Y., leading to initial confusion over his real identity, police said...
...stretch of riding the rails with hard-luck guys." He wound up in New York City, where he landed a job playing guitar in a Texas-style musical at Joseph Papp's Public Theater. He pulled down wages of $60 a week and slept on the Staten Island Ferry...
...with her parents in Brooklyn: "It will keep me back from school, and I have only a year to go. I feel terrible about it. Not knowing if it is male or female, what it would grow up to be, really troubles me." Tina, a childlike 19, lives in Staten Island, N.Y., with her boyfriend and their seven-month-old daughter: "I had a bad caesarean last time, bad infections. I have to wait a few years for another child." Pro-lifers argue that many unwanted pregnancies are due to carelessness and irresponsibility, that abortion has come...
...except Arkady and a beautiful, damaged actress named Irina. Her sexual connection with Osborne is extended to include the I detective, an isosceles triangle with points ranging from the Kremlin to Leningrad to an obscure island named Staten in the strange and hazardous city of New S York. In the process, Smith provides a Dostoyevskian cast of | characters: William Kirwill, a renegade Catholic policeman visiting Moscow to find the murderer of his radical brother; Andreev, a dwarf who can sculpt personalities out of carrion; Zoya, the gymnast, Arkady's humorless wife who parrots jawbreaking propaganda ("So it is shown...