WALDORF

by James Goldman ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

An international agent named after a hotel or a salad may not please those to whom spying is all, but it will amuse those whose parody perspective can include Our Man In Spite of Himself, the completely feckless operator. Waldorf isa teacher, a Sunday painter and a cuckold. When he leaves his wife and flies to Costa Rica in search of the artist behind the initials on some marvelous landscapes, he meets up with agents of the CIA, Russian GPU men, British MI-3, the head of Costa Rican Intelligence, and some remarkable Chinese Communist agents. The main ingredient is a newly deposed Latin dictator and what gets Cooked in the search for him is every spy novel plot twist of the last five years. The author manages, in the middle of all this, to fry these paid peepers and killers under a moral flame, and there's even a dash of romance. Try the Gardner Understrike audience.

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Publisher: Random House

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1965

Categories: FICTION