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The Tiresome Turncoat
Miller, Merle | February 25, 1956 issue

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Richard Llewellyn's novel "Mr. Hamish Gleave," is pretentious, and it is also a bore. It is written in a strange, oblique manner. It is not at all readable. Llewellyn, perhaps because of the way he writes, goes at an idea sideways; he worries it; he claws at it; he sprinkles it with verbiage; then he tosses it aside, like a bone, tooth-marked but undigested, possibly indigestible. The jacket of Llewellyn's novel informs readers that it is "more fact than fiction." It is rumored to mean that the inspiration was in the disappearance of Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, the one-time British Foreign Service men.

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MR. Hamish Gleave (Book); LLEWELLYN, Richard; BOOKS; FICTION; DIPLOMATS; MACLEAN, Donald; BURGESS, Guy
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