See London And Luna.
Stieg Larsson's Mikael Blomkvist:
walked briskly from the Academic bookshop to the side entrance of the N.K. department store;
went straight through the bustling store and out its main entrance;
turned off both his mobiles (?);
walked through the Galleria to Gustav Adolfs Torg;
passed parliament;
entered Gamla Stan;
took a zigzag route through narrow streets to his destination.
Thus, Blomkvist mimics the antics of John le Carre's Alec Leamas in London and Poul Anderson's David Falkayn on Luna. As I said in "London And Luna," Frederick Forsyth somewhere shows us how a trained team could easily follow all three. However, the clandestine "Section" spying on Blomkvist is very small and would not be able to deploy a surveillance team around the center of Stockholm.
I reread Larsson later in the evening, when I have finished blogging, and of course find parallels. Today we are in the best of literary company: Larsson, le Carre, Anderson and Forsyth.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
And Blomkvist turned off both of his cell phones so he could not be tracked using them. Albeit, I agree that a team of trained professionals could have tracked him and David Falkayn.
When it comes to cloak and dagger novels, I still hope you will look up sometime William F. Buckley's spy novels SAVING THE QUEEN and STAINED GLASS, which I consider among the best of his books, both fiction and non fiction.
Sean
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