Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...result is schematic tedium. Napoleon (played by English Actor Kenneth Haigh) has nothing to do, and the script leaves him nothing to say or think. The plot, such as it is, consists of four strands: the foiled escape; the efforts of the garrison commander (Richardson) to move his prisoner from a damp villa to an even damper one; a couple of perfunctory sexual bouts by Napoleon with a married woman (Billie Whitelaw) and a 17-year-old groupie; and some dotty politicking (sample: "I want Vienna!") with Lord Sissal, who is making a deal to restore Napoleon to France...
...Force Brigadier General Tkach (pronounced Ta-kosh), the procedure was routine. Whether the journey is to Amarillo or to Asia, Tkach and his staff investigate medical facilities in advance to make sure that they can offer proper care to the President. The doctors also plot the most direct route from any point on the itinerary to the nearest hospital. Tkach is satisfied that Nixon's health will be well protected in China. "We feel safer on this one than on most," he says. "We feel security will be very good, and I think their medical practice and capability...
What once made America great? What now makes America fairly awful? Schrag's answer to both questions: the WASP. The plot of Peter and the WASP goes like this...
...America as the best first mystery of 1968. His second, Mongo's Back in Town, was bought for $25,000 and turned into a TV movie that was shown last November. Like Johnson's others, Case Load-Maximum amply displays his ability to thread a meticulous plot line through the grit and slime of an urban netherworld where everyone has an angle too sharp for his own good...
Beyond the mystery format, his books already have a penitentiary feel to them. The plot lines turn in on themselves, like ripples bouncing off walls. The cop looking for a killer inadvertently learns that his girl is secretly a prostitute. The hired gunman finds too late that he himself has been set up to be killed by his own brother-who hired him in the first place...