Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Overzealous Actions. Washington sources suggest that Figueres engineered the whole plot story to get rid of Williamson and Ploeser, a Nixon appointee. Don Pepe is, after all, an emotional man; only two weeks ago, he slapped a student for razzing...
...Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, Zindel seems to be overdrawn at the memory bank. His wacky humor is present, along with his abrupt pathos, a way he has of pulling the rug out from under the heart, and his frequently well-honed dialogue. But under it all, the plot, point, purpose and direction of the play seem to have been lost...
...German high command, the center of an international backer's dozen of tycoons who are underwriting Hitler. U.S. intelligence, with help from his abandoned wife and widowed mother, pursues Scarlatti through the capitals of the world, encountering murder, madness and megalomania among the high and the mighty. The plot is pure kitsch, but does occasionally clutch, and the reader rests assured that the damned indeed are doomed...
...time: 1974, ". . . a decade before 1984." The protagonist seems to be just another middle-aged paid assassin. His contract is with three university professors. The plot: to blow up the Peace Train scheduled to pass through a university town two weeks hence, carrying "the man," along with the usual entourage of Government brass, Secret Service men and reporters...
...fact, Evan Hunter's apparently modest suspense tale is about quite a different sort of assassination plot. It works as well as it does because the academics he portrays are teasingly out of character in their commitment to violence, yet touched by an anger and frustration now frighteningly familiar. It would be unfair to Hunter and his readers to reveal his sleight-of-hand device. But the result is an intriguing handicapper's book, a second-guessing game of truth and its consequences...