ctj@msudoc.UUCP (Chris T. Johnson {of Systems}) (01/22/86)
===============Food for the Line Eater=============
Pierre Salinger and Leonard Gross's "The Dossier"
Score: Begining: 5, Middle: 7, End: 7, Overall: 7
Blurb: A whispered rumor that one of the most respected free world
leaders had been a Nazi informer and collaborator has emerged from the
hidden corridors of international power.
One thing can prove the man's quilt or innocence. A dossier dating
from World War II ... One man can find the evidence. Celebrated
American TV newsman Andre' Kohl, intimate of the famous and powerful,
now pulling every string to unearth the secret that could change the
course of history...
One woman can help him. Meredith Houghton, the beautiful,
brilliant daughter of the Chief of the CIA, whose love for Andre'
threatens to make her a vulnerable pawn in a deadly game of duplicity.
And many people on both sides of the Iron Curtain are eager to lend
their hands to lead the two to the truth, or to the grave....
Opinion: A fun book. Thought this story begins very slowly, it quickly
picks up the pace until you feel as if you can not turn the pages fast
enough. It took me two days to read the first ~4 chapters and 1.5 hours
to read the last 24 chapters. Once the games was a foot, I felt that
Andre' would never break free.
This story is similar in style to Robert Ludlum's novels. Unsuspecting
person is suddenly involved with a mystery of the first degree. Unlike
Ludlum's character's Andre' never really is in over his head.
The story is about a TV reporter who is manipulated into investigating
the past of the French president to be. Once into the story you find
that nothing is as it is reported to be. Are hero is forever being
burned for doing the "correct" thing but in the end he prevails.
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