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2 D14. THE DAILY "Salisbury, Md. Sept. 9, 1984 BOOKS. Deighton Spy Novel Compelling Reading Bernard Sampson, the narrator of Len Deighton's spy novel, Berlin Game, is 40-ish, a soldier's son, Berlin-raised, a sardonic veteran who has recently moved from the field to a desk.

His independently wealthy wife Fiona, mother of two, also works at Intelligence, fairly high up in Operations. Now, however, a series of odd, perhaps connected, developments is sending Bernie back into action. For one thing, Britain's longtime spy within East Germany's banking community code-named "Brahms Four" is ready to defect, even though London wants him to stay put. And Bernie, whose life was once saved by "Brahms Four," is the only agent who can handle face-to-face negotiations with this aging, restless spy. Furthermore, there is uneasiness within the "Brahms Network" of East Berlin spies, who are afraid of being exposed by some unnamed traitor.

And afraid of giving up their shady financial -espionage) dealings. And most disturbing of all is the apparent treason of Intelligence desk man Giles Trent, who certainly has been passing data to a KGB agent, his spinster sister's lover. But isn't it strange how easily Books Of The Times JoAnn Ramsey Wicomico County Free Library Trent's betrayal is unearthed, how obvious his Russian contacts have been? Could it be that the KGB is using the superficial Trent traitordom to cover up some more important, better concealed traitor confeune closer to the top? So wonders Bernie, especially after Trent attempts suicide. And, teaming up with the one other top desk man he trusts, but doesn't like, he tries to use Trent in a scheme to smoke out this high-level traitor. The plan backfires, leading to Trent's murder by one of those fearful "Brahms Network" agents.

Finally, Bernie winds up sneaking into East Berlin for a meeting with "Brahms Four" as the plot strands converge. "Brahms Four" knows the identity of the upper echelon mole and will trade that information for help in defecting. Neat character sketches and London-Berlin atmosphere make it easy to keep reading right past the murky tangles. And soon this tale becomes compelling reading indeed. Forever Fit: The Exercise Program for Staying Young, by Dr.

Morton Bogdonoff, with Ardy Friedberg, is a sound exercise regimen for over-40s who have been letting themselves go to seed. Bogdonoff put the program together after working in exercise studies at Duke Uni- 'Fletch' Creator 'A Pussycat' LOS ANGELES (AP) Authors from Ernest Hemingway to Norman Mailer have complained about how their novels have been brought to the screen, so you might expect the same of Gregory Mcdonald, the flinty New Englander who is the father of 'Fletch." Mcdonald turns out to be a pussycat. Well, not entirely. When he first read the script for filmed by Universal Pictures, he fired off his objections. He describes his actions at that time as "just being ornery, since the studio had no contractual commitment to listen to The author came here from Boston to meet director Michael 'Ritchie, as well as Chevy Chase, who is playing reporter-sleuth 1.M.

Fletcher. "Despite filming all day, Ritchie found the time to take me out to dinner," Mcdonald recounted. "He is a great man. Point by point, he showed me where 1 was wrong. I was beautifully chewed Mcdonald waxes hyperbolic about Chase: "If a national 'election were held today, he should be elected He also paid tribute to Peter Douglas, son of Kirk, coproducer (with Alan Greisman) of "Fletch." "From 1975-6 he has been bird-dogging this project," Mcdonald said of Douglas.

"He's a Hollywood kid, but he hasn't fallen into the usual traps. He had the guts and I persistence to put the deal together." Mcdonald describes himself as an uptight northeastern Scottish guy, a journalist and son of a journalist. He looks type-cast long, lean face, straight nose, skeptical blue eyes. versity's Center for the Study of Aging. It is a well-designed, gradually intensifying series of stretching and walking, jogging, swimming or biking workouts.

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David agent called to say, 'Paramount Hemmings made a film version owes you $10,000 for 'Running in England, but for legal reasons it never was released in Drawing from his news expethe United States. rience, he created the character April 20, 1973, I sat down of Irwin Maurice Fletcher, a and wrote my letter of re- reporter with a knack for solvsignation," Mcdonald said. "I ing murders. Fletch won the had been working for three 1975 Edgar from the Mystery newspapers the morning, Writers of America, and evening and Sunday editions Confess, Fletch did the same in and it was impossible for me to 1977. Eight novels in the series write fiction.

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