The Queue
I interest would not have been piqued by At Risk—wretchedly dull title, for what it's worth—were it not for my profound & lingering affection for Christopher Andrew's Defend the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5. (Before embarking on her second career as a novelist, Dame Stella was the first distaff Director General of the Security Service.) Thus far, it's mass-market boilerplate, a far departure from the deceptively low-key, workaday world of espionage & counterespionage portrayed in Len Deighton's fiction, but that's not to say At Risk is bereft of entertainment value. There is yet a ways to go, & I am completely undecided about tackling the Other novels in Dame Stella's Liz Carlyle series. But after this brief sidetrip I'll be back to Spy Sinker, the concluding volume of Deighton's second Bernard Samson trilogy.

Recently
Len Deighton, Spy Hook
Len Deighton, Spy Line
various writers & artists, Showcase Presents: Martian Manhunter, Volume Two

Currently
Stella Rimington, At Risk
Len Deighton, Spy Sinker ***postponed***

Presently
Karen E. Olson, Driven to Ink
Len Deighton, Faith
Len Deighton, Hope

The Rebel Black Dot Song of the Day
Fountains of Wayne, "Sick Day" from Fountains of Wayne (T.L.A.M.)

Commentary: I wish.