ISBN: 0708817777
Godina izdanja: 1980
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Thomas Wiseman - A Game of Secrets
Futura, 1980
414 str.
meki povez
stanje: dobro, strana 25-26 je otcepljena.

Wiseman, one of the most reliably professional and truly character-oriented of spy novelists, has vividly caught a moment in history here--the moment when the postwar CIA was being born out of the wartime OSS, when the basic boundaries of all subsequent "covert operations" were being decided. And President Truman`s newly chosen adviser on that topic is Bill Hardtman, a blueblood with leftish leanings in his past, a superachiever now determined to make a dent in the closed doors he keeps coming up against. His chief CIA adversary: his old Yale classmate, brashly opinionated Walter Cole, who hasn`t changed a bit since the old days. Bill finds it tough to find Cole`s highly camouflaged offices, let alone get straight answers to his questions about what the newborn CIA is up to in Berlin. But far bigger problems lie ahead for Bill: he and his rich-girl-grown-up wife have both fallen a bit under the spell of Britisher Julian Blake, Washington`s chic practitioner of a combination of yoga, massage, flattery, and medicine. And when Bill is in N.Y. for a speech, not only does he depart from his prepared text and denounce the Cold-Warriors, but he also allows Blake to propel him into the super-sexy arms of freelance journalist Joannie Fontanez; their Plaza Hotel lust-lest goes on and on, and Bill finds himself hopelessly compromised--especially when it appears that blackmailer Blake (soon a "suicide") is an enemy agent and that Joannie also sleeps at the Russian embassy. Bill`s utter indiscretion is a bit hard to believe in, but otherwise Wiseman textures this rather simple plot with dialogue and personality details that are rich and convincing. And the final episode--Bill`s hunt through Manhattan gangland to learn the truth of Blake`s murder--is a haunting setpiece. All ambitious spy novelists get likened to Le Carre and Greene; Wiseman is one of the few who merits the comparison.


Fiction, Spy