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Philip
Jul 14, 2012 rated it did not like it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: fiction-standalone, cold-war-fiction, spy-fiction-american, first-person, 1-star
Really long, really boring, and REALLY could have done without the endless homoerotic overtones (including the graphic gay anal sex, which wasn't exactly an "overtone"...). If this is "literary" spy fiction, I'll stick to Fleming and other pulp. Apparently, this didn't fare much better with the critics than it did with me; TIME magazine noted that Mailer "runs into serious difficulty" in the areas of "suspense, characterization, dialogue and effective prose." My first -- and last -- exposure to ...more
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David Stokes
Jul 09, 2013 rated it it was amazing
An excellent espionage novel!
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Scott E
Aug 18, 2009 marked it as to-read
Shelves: on-deck-spy-thrillers
Tomas
Sep 20, 2011 marked it as to-read
Will Perkins
Sep 30, 2012 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
KOsie
Dec 22, 2014 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Steve Anderson
Aug 22, 2015 marked it as to-read
AndrewK
Apr 08, 2016 marked it as to-read
Shelves: spy
James Blackfire
Nov 26, 2016 marked it as to-read
Jill
May 04, 2018 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: fiction, espionage, cia
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Jun 26, 2018 marked it as to-read
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Nov 28, 2020 marked it as to-read
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Nov 10, 2022 marked it as to-read
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