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The Jupiter Crisis

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Another interesting if unremarkable espionage thriller from the early 1970s.

Things are rarely what they seem, and the curious activities of a hard-line US president [you are not supposed to think of Richard M Nixon] causes a radical reporter to start asking some uncomfortable questions about the presidents's past political career as a notorious red-baiter and Commie-hunter. There's a long trip into East Berlin in the company of some White Russian free-lance spies, and the truth slowly emerges. The US president is a Soviet mole, whose every political move was calculated by the Kremlim to get him into a position where he could ascend to the US presidency.

Yeah, they don't write espionage thrillers like they used to. I'm not sure why not.

The writing is workmanlike and efficient, there are no unnecessary subplots to bog down the action, characterization and dialog is minimal but effective. Another representative work of American spy fiction fron the early 1970s.

Read this novel, you won't be bored, you will be entertained, and you can see how much the spy/espionage genre has changed [and not always for the better] in the last 40 years.