Title: A 'Quiet American' in Africa? C.J. Beck's 'Spiked'.
Review: www.ala.org/ala/emiert/emiebulletin/emiehighlights/EMIEHighlights.htm has the latest interview with C.J. Beck on his `Quiet American' in apartheid era Africa. Plot parallels. Like Greene's hero, Beck's Strachan is torn between his role as a journalist or becoming a part of the story. SPIKED has us tumbling through a version of "All the President's men" but with action hero duo like the "Lethal Weapon" film team. Speculates on a future possible, if a character like the real life Gerald Bull, designer of the world's largest supergun survived assassination and realized his dream of a space gun, by far the most realistic means to launch unmanned spacecraft, yet still ignored by NASA. One definitely for Graham Greene fans.
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