Yorkshire Ranter has a terrific run down of a story detailing parts of how the UAE’s arms black market developed, centering on one certain Tomislav Damjanovic (and Viktor Bout associate). Unsurprisingly, their activities spill over to Iraq.
As You-Know-Who would say, read the whole thing.
Well, the book is about Civil War espionage. But it would be funny if we read it and said, ‘Man, that’s a lot like LeCarre!’
I haven’t read The Killer Angels. Cold Mountain won the National Book Award a few years ago, but I never read it. Have you?
LeCarre? It’s hard to see him in a civil war context – That seemed a bit out of place. The Killer Angels was a very good book. If he can approach that – well that would be a tall order.
Translation: TC=The Colonel, TC=Magnum PI’s friend. My bad.
But what I wanted to call attention to was the line that compared his writing to LeCarre’s.
Meant – about Lang’s book. Magnum crack?
Aldershot – what do you mean?
I’m a wild and crazy guy!
Hey, you wait till I get back onto Yemen and Somalia. Irbis Air Co, Riyan Mukalla, you know what I mean?
Dig the second to last line on TC’s pre-publication page:
http://www.rosemontbooks.com/
(and I dare anyone to make a Magnum crack)
Hear the shrill whistle which doth order give
To sounds confused; behold the threaden sails,
Borne with the invisible and creeping wind,
Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow’d sea,
Breasting the lofty surge…
Henry V prologue, Act 3
Benchpresser was on Frontline tonight speaking about the ‘Iranian Threat,’ but it was hard to remember anything he said. He spoke, he spoke, and spoke – but his words wilted.
Did Viktor Bout go to Hillsdale?
“The charge of anti-Semitism has been leveled at Woody Allen so many times as to sound unoriginal. Without rehearsing all the evidence and counter-arguments ….”
~Benjamin Plotinsky
Commentary Oct, 2007