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...passes for special entertainment such as bands and theme parties. Students say that members usually hang out in their own club since they each have a special character. From Terrace, the artsy, diverse club, to the more pretentious, selective clubs to the more frat-like beer oriented clubs like Tiger Inn (TI), there are options for almost everyone. In addition, each club has a unique atmosphere and history. A popular TI anecdote tells how members destroyed an expensive tree at Cottage, another club, and were going to be held financially responsible. To pay for the tree, they had the choice...
Finally, the Ireland of today is not the stereotypical Ireland of perfectly thatched homes, leprechauns, fairies and gold at the end of the rainbow. Nor is it the dank, gloomy and oppressive place that some writers portray. Rather, this "Celtic Tiger" is rearing its head and roaring at long last with an economic growth. It is a nation that takes ancient forms and smartly and beautifully updates them to light the end of the 20th century. It is a nation that, in the North, is finally nearing a peaceful resolution to hundreds of years of conflict with the descendants...
...Carre stakes his complex and typically elliptical tale, with frequent shifts between time frames and narrative voices, on a fairly basic premise: the tangled relationship between a son and his father. Oliver Single begins as the heir apparent to the legendary Tiger Single, founder of the House of Single, a high-flying London financial firm renamed Single & Single after Oliver, law degree in hand, is brought aboard by his father. The son's initiation into the family business goes smoothly until the firm takes on some new clients: Yevgeny and Mikhail Orlov, Russian brothers who offer Tiger...
...Tiger makes Oliver the trusted liaison with the Orlovs, who dismissively call him "Post Boy," until he grows sickened by the sort of traffic they conduct for their and his firm's profit. "lf I can go along with selling the blood of poor Russians," he asks himself, "where if anywhere will I draw the line?" So, after one more disillusioning visit with the Orlovs, Oliver deplanes at Heathrow Airport and impulsively asks to see a high-ranking officer of Her Majesty's Customs Service. As it turns out, Oliver is just the person that Nat Brock has been waiting...
...father has finally tracked down his whereabouts and may possibly be seeking vengeance. He then learns from Brock that the Orlovs and Single & Single have had a falling-out. The Russians and their henchmen have murdered a high official of Single & Single and videotaped the act to impress on Tiger their displeasure with him and his firm. The elder Single, in response, has gone into hiding or perhaps into the clutches of the Orlovs...