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SMOKE AND MIRRORS Review

SMOKE AND MIRRORS
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Other than some editing issues which need to be cleaned up, I think Smoke and Mirrors is a good book and definitely an interesting story if you take it as that, just a story. I'm sure there is accurate information in there as far as locales go, since Mr. Starmann was in Berlin and knows his way around, but the book is fiction and should be taken that way. There are several story lines that hold your attention and keep you reading. The characters range from crazy to outrageous to heart warming but they are all entertaining. A very good read.

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Berlin, 1978: as the Cold War rages, the intelligence officers of the United States Military Liaison Mission hunt for the newest Soviet tank, the T-80. After two deaths and near disaster, they realize a mole works among them, a spy who reports to Markus Wolf, Chief of East German Intelligence. As the hunt for the T-80 continues, the mole continues to damage "The Mission" as much as possible, while counter-intelligence vows to stop him at all costs. Meanwhile, the so-called PX Bandits loot Germany six ways from Sunday. But, Army CID is just one step behind them. Little do the thieves know that they will help allied intelligence in a way they could never have imagined.

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Tree of Smoke: A Novel Review

Tree of Smoke: A Novel
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I was very disappointed. I'd read Angels years ago and had wanted to get back to Johnson. My qualms are not with the writing--Johnson is a gifted stylist and you must be careful not to gloss over certain passages or paragraphs which are dense philosophical insights wrapped in great prose and at times poetry. Nor with the politics--those dismissing the book for its lack of aviation verisimilitude or because it wasn't as good a Vietnam book as some others, are evaluating an apple as an orange.
My disappointment is with the characters and the plot. This is at heart an intellectual work: it ruminates and dazzles, but the characters remain distant and abstract, and each time I became caught up in a subplot, it would be discarded. It was a novel that made me think--but I also wanted to feel.
Skip Sands is the fulcrum around which the novel moves, but I never was able to fully grasp his character--or care about him. And, while he thinks a lot, he doesn't do very much.
Take my review, however, with a grain of salt. I've seen some reviewers refer to Tolstoy, and I have to admit, I felt the same way about Sands as I did about Pierre in War and Peace.

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