Readers are unlikely to come upon another book on this topic that so thoroughly explores its checkered past and describes in such detail the behind-the-scenes maneuvering that ushered in what we now ...
Jacobsen doesn’t flinch from detailing the horrors and devastation of thermonuclear Armageddon. It takes a strong stomach to work your way through her account, but readers will come away with a keener ...
Nick Harkaway, the pseudonymous author of the new novel Karla’s Choice (dubbed by the publisher “A John Le Carré novel”), is the son of John Le Carré, also a pseudonym. In a brief foreword, Harkaway ...
Harkaway is a skilled mimic of his father’s colorful dialogue, thumbnail character descriptions, and attention to setting. The dialogue rarely strikes a false note, though at times, Smiley seems far ...