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Title: What a waste
Review: The book has several nicely built-up and interesting characters, spectacular descriptions of the countryside in "Spanish" Guiana (which, one assumes ia a loosely disguised version of Colombia or Peru), and an interesting (if Machiavellian) plot, which all dissipates into ... something, but I'm not sure what.Len Deighton loves to display the cynical humanism that believes that there should be a pox on both houses in most conflicts, since neither's objectives are pure. As such, his distaste at the moral ambiguity of the Cold War and post-Cold War conflicts comes through in his novels, as it does in Mamista. However, morally ambiguous plots do not have to leave the reader wildly groping for closure, as this one does.All too often, one sees movies that start well and then struggle to end well. That perfectly describes this book. What a waste. What a pity.
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