The Washington Post, May 24th, 1998
THE CONSUL'S WIFE By W.T. Tyler Henry Holt. 216 pp. $24 Longing for the heart of darkness? Hugh Mathews has been there and back (back to Northern Virginia, in fact). Booted out of a cushy post in prewar Beirut after making trouble at the Syrian border, Mathews, a foreign service officer and the protagonist of W.T. Tyler's latest novel, is reassigned to Central Africa. No surprise that he doesn't make it in Kinshasa, either. Instead of playing the junior-diplomat game, Mathews hooks up with Ken McAuliffe, the novel's bad boy (you can tell because he has a beard, a motorcycle and a supply of mar...
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