More adventures of the Great Brain

John Dennis Fitzgerald

Book - 1969

In 1896 the Great Brain of Adenville, Utah, is almost twelve years old and more mischievous than ever in his practical jokes and schemes against everyone in town.

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Published
New York : Dial Press 1969.
Language
English
Main Author
John Dennis Fitzgerald (-)
Other Authors
Mercer Mayer, 1943- (illustrator)
Physical Description
142 p. : ill
ISBN
9780142400654
  • Chapter 1. The Night the Monster Walked
  • Chapter 2. The Taming of Britches Dotty
  • Chapter 3. The Time Papa Got Lost
  • Chapter 4. Tom Scoops Papa's Newspaper
  • Chapter 5. The Death of Old Butch
  • Chapter 6. The Ghost of Silverlode
Review by Kirkus Book Review

Espionage, then counterespionage, and now. . . counter-counterespionage""-- which means, since Hynd (The Sandler Inquiry) still hasn't quite gotten the knack of presenting a complex plot lucidly, that only dogged readers will be around for the neat twist that waits at the end of this U.S./Russia/China spy triangle. CIA man Lassiter of London is sure that there's a traitor in his European system when a Russian spy flees with suspiciously good timing--leaving behind, however, six silicon chips from a U.S. missile guidance system. Lassiter summons old Agency buddy Bill Mason, a CIA fall-guy, but by the time that bitter Bill arrives to help out, Lassiter has been pushed off a building. Bill's attempt to avenge his friend by identifying the traitor is simplified when a British agent disappears-- and when an Arab-Russian knot of Paris-based operatives offers to exchange the traitor for those silicon chips (which Bill retrieved from inside Lassiter's wristwatch). But is this all a Chinese set-up--double-double-cross style? And what about those chips and the suicide of the man back in America who designed them? (Bill visits and actively consoles the suicide's widow as part of his research.) When-- if--you reach Hynd's snazzy epilogue, you'll wonder why he couldn't have designed a less murky scenario to lead us to his final revelation--a denouement which explains a lot, but not enough to dispel all vestiges of that counter-counterespionage migraine. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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