Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site trwatf.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!trwatf!maverick
From: maverick@trwatf.UUCP (Mark D. Grover)
Newsgroups: net.books,net.politics
Subject: _The Double Man_ by Hart & Cohen
Message-ID: <859@trwatf.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 14-Apr-85 19:31:57 EST
Article-I.D.: trwatf.859
Posted: Sun Apr 14 19:31:57 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 18-Apr-85 02:19:43 EST
Distribution: net
Organization: TRW Advanced Technology Facility, Merrifield VA.
Lines: 21
Xref: watmath net.books:1677 net.politics:8542

After reading this soon-to-be-hot-in-Washington book, I have to admit some
disappointment.  This is not your best spy novel, but the authors backgrounds
obviously add authenticity to the locales (like the Senate pool) which is
interesting in itself.  It all reads like a Super Senator fantasy, but thats
OK, since heroes of espionage books are typically anything but legislators.

The plot is no-holds-barred. You name it, it's there.  Renegade spooks,
Mafia plots, the Kennedy assassination.  It has been called "fast
moving"; I found myself frequently wishing it would SLOW DOWN.  There
are many, many twists and characters which could have been wonderfully
developed and exploited.  (Or, in several cases, at least resolved!)  I
would like to discuss the conclusion of the book on the net later as
folks out there read it.  It's fun, it hints at being enlightening, but
it's not "clean" like most novels of this genre.  After all, most of it
was written on airplanes during the last election...
-- 
MDG

ARPA: trwatf!maverick@SEISMO
UUCP:	...!{decvax,ihnp4,allegra}!seismo!trwatf!maverick
			...ucbvax!trwrb!trwatf!maverick