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...FOURTH PROTOCOL by Frederick Forsyth Viking; 389 pages...
...extremely sad to report that one of the century's most dependable mechanisms for reality avoidance, the many-times-retold spy thriller whose gray secret is the mole in the British intelligence service, is in deep trouble. This is not really the fault of Frederick Forsyth, whose prose and plotting are no clunkier than those of other literary spy masters who borrowed the mole genre after John le Carré was through with...
...looking for a pattern, Sir Nigel," Forsyth's hero, Agent John Preston, reports to his boss. "It's all I can look for. A pattern of entries and exits by the same passport number. . . . It's not much, but it's all I have...
...deplored Trevanian's habit, in The Eiger Sanction, of hauling such celebrities as the Burtons and Jackie Onassis into the action: "There is nothing wrong with this if you have a point to make about them. But he has nothing to say." Vidal twitted Frederick Forsyth for piling facts into "freight-car sentences." He was kinder to Herman Wouk and The Winds of War, praising the historical research, quoting a description of F.D.R. and announcing: "This is not at all bad, except as prose...
...later, De Gaulle returned to save France from civil war over Algeria. He eventually gave the rebellious, predominantly Muslim province its independence, earning the animosity of the pied-noir settlers and the rightist supporters of Algérie francaise who plotted to kill him. (One assassination attempt inspired Frederick Forsyth's 1971 thriller The Day of the Jackal...