Word: successional
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President Kennedy's assassination, it turns out, was investigated not only by the Warren Commission but also by Cuban leader Fidel Castro. According to newly released FBI documents, Castro staged his own tests shortly after the murder to determine if one person could have fired three shots in rapid succession...
Lightman rushes from one scene to the next, so that most of his characters are caricatured, or at least underdeveloped. In this short novel, he progresses through thirty or so years; the resulting portrait comes across as a succession of incidents rather than a coherent narrative.
Clark, baited by the legions of Agee detractors and alarmed by the worsening financial condition of the company, then took control of the succession effort. By the time the board met in San Francisco on Feb. 9, MK's lenders had joined the chorus calling for Agee's ouster. Only...
And not far away, teaching at Bath, is his old friend from prep school and Oxford, Larry Pettifer, who has also been cashiered from intelligence and given a professorial post where, his former masters hope, he will stay out of trouble. Tim was one of those masters; he recruited Larry...
The Succession