Three thrillers
Despite the return of 007 in Moonraker, the stars of the thriller genre are no longer superheroes. Nor are they the antiheroes of Graham Greene and John le Carré. The new breed are unheroes: stumblers into international espionage, bumblers onto lethal plots. The following thrillers feature this summer's best bunglers:
Death of a Patriot by R.E. Harrington (Putnam; 240 pages; $8.95). Thomas Hobbes, son of a crack CIA agent, has also joined the Langley leviathan, but as a lowly and embittered file clerk. Young Hobbes is too timid and colorless for cloak-and-swagger...
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