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Man on Edge by Humphrey Hawksley
Flaccid fiction mars atmospheric elan of stock-in-trade spy thriller
PLACE MAN: Humphrey Hawksley
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RON JACOBS welcomes the translation into English of an angry cry from the place they call the periphery
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SINCE leaving his job as a foreign correspondent for the BBC, Humphrey Hawksley has put his accumulated knowledge to good use in writing some reasonably insightful accounts of the negative globalised impact of Western liberal democracy.
By contrast, his fictional output is unlikely to cause his ex-bosses at the Establishment broadcaster much concern.
Man on Edge is the second in his Rake Ozenna series which involves various Western intelligence agents grappling with a Russian foe whose stock characteristics are akin to Ian Fleming’s anti-Soviet equivalent in the James Bond franchise.
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