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REMEMBRANCE DAY
Porter, Henry
2000 53389 A British journalist's debut thriller, Remembrance Day has the high-intensity impact of a 24-point headline. Con Lindow, an Irish-born molecular biologist recently relocated to London after a distinguished career in the U.S., is waiting for his brother near a busy Underground station when a bus explodes, gravely wounding Eammon Lindow and destroying the lives of dozens of passengers and bystanders. When Con wakes up in a hospital, he finds himself the chief suspect in what the British Security Service and Scotland Yard believe is another IRA outrage. Only one man believes in his innocence: Commander Kenneth Foyle, head of the Anti-Terrorism unit of the Metropolitan Police Force, who is frustrated by the infighting between his own department and various operatives of the intelligence services that is hindering his efforts to solve the crime. A false passport and a cryptic note hidden in his brother's apartment are Con's only leads in his desperate attempt to clear his name. The hunt for Ian Rhodes, the rogue MI5 agent responsible for the bombing, takes Con to Ireland, Boston, and Maine, accompanied by an attractive and mysterious friend of Eammon's who has her own reasons for wanting to stop Rhodes from carrying out his plan to blow up the peace talks in one last horrendous gesture of defiance. Porter's pacing is brilliant, his characters tightly and believably drawn, and his knowledge of the internecine world of British intelligence encyclopedic. This well-crafted novel makes him a worthy successor to John Le Carré; readers will be eagerly anticipating his next effort, hoping for another encounter with the real hero of Remembrance Day, the dogged and likable Commander Foyle. --Jane Adams From Publishers Weekly Explanations of British law enforcement politics and high-tech sleuthing undermine the tension in Porter's first novel; in fact, the U.K. Vanity Fair editor is often forced to stop the action to summarize the plot. Research microbiologist Constantine Lindow is nearly killed by a bus bomb presumably set by some faction of the IRA to explode on a busy London street. Con's brother is killed in the blast, but even so, Con is arrested, mostly because he's an Irish national freshly arrived from Boston. The chief investigator, Commander Kenneth Foyle, doesn't think Lindow is involved and releases him, but he is quickly removed from the case for letting a prime suspect go. After a number of internal power struggles among various agencies, Lindow travels to Ireland to bury his brother, then back to New England where he is joined by gorgeous double agent Mary Menihan, whom he immediately beds. He then heads off with her to the Maine woods to locate the terrorist-assassins' lair. That accomplished, Lindow returns to England, where Foyle reenters the story and assumes the protagonist's role for a while. The villain is eventually tracked down, but what his ultimate target will be remains a mystery. The intrepid Lindow and his beautiful spy-consort reappear, and between bouts of steamy lovemaking and coffee and pastry, manage to bring the story to a flat conclusion. Although the narrative is hamstrung by coincidence and implausibility, burdened by redundancy and long speeches and weighed down by superfluous characters, the love scenes are sexy and the action scenes, while brief, provide what the rest of the book doesn't: thrills. Simon & Schuster 0-684-86549-1 / 9780684865492
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REMEMBRANCE DAY
Porter, Henry
2000 51221 A British journalist's debut thriller, Remembrance Day has the high-intensity impact of a 24-point headline. Con Lindow, an Irish-born molecular biologist recently relocated to London after a distinguished career in the U.S., is waiting for his brother near a busy Underground station when a bus explodes, gravely wounding Eammon Lindow and destroying the lives of dozens of passengers and bystanders. When Con wakes up in a hospital, he finds himself the chief suspect in what the British Security Service and Scotland Yard believe is another IRA outrage. Only one man believes in his innocence: Commander Kenneth Foyle, head of the Anti-Terrorism unit of the Metropolitan Police Force, who is frustrated by the infighting between his own department and various operatives of the intelligence services that is hindering his efforts to solve the crime. A false passport and a cryptic note hidden in his brother's apartment are Con's only leads in his desperate attempt to clear his name. The hunt for Ian Rhodes, the rogue MI5 agent responsible for the bombing, takes Con to Ireland, Boston, and Maine, accompanied by an attractive and mysterious friend of Eammon's who has her own reasons for wanting to stop Rhodes from carrying out his plan to blow up the peace talks in one last horrendous gesture of defiance. Porter's pacing is brilliant, his characters tightly and believably drawn, and his knowledge of the internecine world of British intelligence encyclopedic. This well-crafted novel makes him a worthy successor to John Le Carré; readers will be eagerly anticipating his next effort, hoping for another encounter with the real hero of Remembrance Day, the dogged and likable Commander Foyle. --Jane Adams From Publishers Weekly Explanations of British law enforcement politics and high-tech sleuthing undermine the tension in Porter's first novel; in fact, the U.K. Vanity Fair editor is often forced to stop the action to summarize the plot. Research microbiologist Constantine Lindow is nearly killed by a bus bomb presumably set by some faction of the IRA to explode on a busy London street. Con's brother is killed in the blast, but even so, Con is arrested, mostly because he's an Irish national freshly arrived from Boston. The chief investigator, Commander Kenneth Foyle, doesn't think Lindow is involved and releases him, but he is quickly removed from the case for letting a prime suspect go. After a number of internal power struggles among various agencies, Lindow travels to Ireland to bury his brother, then back to New England where he is joined by gorgeous double agent Mary Menihan, whom he immediately beds. He then heads off with her to the Maine woods to locate the terrorist-assassins' lair. That accomplished, Lindow returns to England, where Foyle reenters the story and assumes the protagonist's role for a while. The villain is eventually tracked down, but what his ultimate target will be remains a mystery. The intrepid Lindow and his beautiful spy-consort reappear, and between bouts of steamy lovemaking and coffee and pastry, manage to bring the story to a flat conclusion. Although the narrative is hamstrung by coincidence and implausibility, burdened by redundancy and long speeches and weighed down by superfluous characters, the love scenes are sexy and the action scenes, while brief, provide what the rest of the book doesn't: thrills. ( Simon & Schuster 0-684-86549-1 / 9780684865492
Hardcover Brand New Condition New Book Jacket New York
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