The Economist (US), December 7th, 1996
SHADOWS thrown by floodlights on walls and sentryposts, those gritty traces of old frontiers where ideologies bristled at each other, lurk in the minds of too many writers of political thrillers and spy fiction. Those were good days, you can hear authors yearn in books turned out since the Berlin Wall fell. Before then readers more or less knew who the bad guys were, and writers aping a few well-known models such as John le Carre could endlessly permutate bad apples, weak politicians, double-dealing deskmen and unwilling heroes.
Fresh veins being tricky to find, Frederick Forsyth tries hard...
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