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...author's nearly endless chronicle has always been his seething contempt, and Samson's, for England's upper-class bumblers, and for Oxbridge leftists of the Kim Philby stamp. Readers who have followed Samson from Berlin Game will recall that his very upper-class wife Fiona, also an English intelligence agent, defected to East Germany and set up shop as a KGB colonel, no less...
...Fiona J. Fox '91 is one of the program's supervisors. "I'm [Sosland's] roommate, so it was kind of hard for me to not get swept up in the whole SafeStreets project--not that I didn't want to get involved anyway," says Fox. "Hopefully SafeStreets will be around for a long time...
...first place finishes included sophomore Jill Hutchinson, who helped win the 200 medley relay as well as the 100 freestyle. Junior Kaari Reierson defeated all her challengers in the 100 backstroke and the 200 backstroke. Other Crimson winners were freshmen Stacie Duncan and Jenny Moyer, sophomores Heather McCann, Fiona Fox, Anne Koerckel, Mary Ruppe and junior Mia Castle...
...Samson seems slow to catch on to the freeze-out, it is partly because he has been distracted by Fiona's replacement. Lovely Gloria also works at Secret Service (London Central), and is more than 20 years younger than Deighton's middle-aged hero. As in previous Deighton thrillers, the pace quickens once the cool atmospheres and the cast of characters are established. Curious Bernie learns he is being used, but the stronger his suspicions, the more forceful are his bosses' warnings to lay off. At one point, he is ordered across the Atlantic and the American continent...
Surfacing in fragments is a willfully inconclusive story of vanished Secret Service funds, estimated at (pounds)4 million, that are thought to have been used by Fiona to set up an intelligence network in East Germany. But one can never be sure. Deighton dangles quite a few possibilities that should lure readers on to future Samson adventures. In addition to dead men who do not stay dead, there may be a defector who may not be defective: a small hint is dropped that Fiona could be working for our side after all. When last seen, Bernie...