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IN John Le Carre's A Most Wanted Man (Penguin, 440 pages, $13), banker Tommy Brue gets an unusual request. Out of the blue, a lawyer he's never heard of tells him that one of her clients has a key that gives him access to one of the bank's vaults, and the fortune within.
[George Mallory] is a compelling character, in many ways the traditional English gentleman but with a single-mindedness that permits no compromise: he's going to climb Everest, and that's all there is to it.The Darwin Awards books (this is the fifth) are black comedies. Ordinarily we probably wouldn't laugh at stories of people who accidentally kill themselves, but these are such ludicrous stories, and the people -- for the most part -- so preposterously foolish, that it's OK to chuckle. Or, in some cases, to laugh out loud.See the full content of this document
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Le Carre Still Great After All These Years
IN John Le Carre's A Most Wanted Man (Penguin, 440 pages, $13), banker Tommy Brue gets an unusual request. Out of the blue, a lawyer he's never heard of tells him that one of...
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