The Queue
More from John le Carré is definitely in the offing now that I've finished the "Karla trilogy;" my sense is that I'll go back to the beginning with his debut novel, Call for the Dead, though my experience with the early work of Len Deighton—the unfortunate Horse Under Water—stands as a reminder that novelists sometimes need seasoning before their talent is manifested on the page.

Steve Matchett's first book, Life in the Fast Lane, has jumped the queue ahead of Dr. Soderstrom's The Big House not because my affection for Formula One racing is greater than my affection for Michigan football—those words, were they leveled as an accusation, would indeed be fighting words—but because F1 returns from its August break the weekend before Michigan's opener. I've simply got more time to read The Big House before the valiant Wolverines take the field than to read Life in the Fast Lane before the F1 circus alights on the Ardennes. That said…

Go Blue!

I am now № 16 in the queue for Carte Blanche; do not trouble yourself on my account, The Guy, I find succor in the old saw that good things come to those who wait.

Recently
John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy
Charles Cumming, A Spy by Nature
John le Carré, Smiley's People

Currently
Steve Matchett, Life in the Fast Lane: The Inside Story of Benetton's First World Championship

Presently
Robert M. Soderstrom, The Big House: Fielding H. Yost and the Building of Michigan Stadium
John Buchan, The Thirty-nine Steps
Keith Jeffery, The Secret History of M.I.6: 1909-1949
Allen Dulles, The Craft of Intelligence
William F. Buckley, Jr., Saving the Queen
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Jeffery Deaver, Carte Blanche

The Rebel Black Dot Songs of the Day
Super Boat Warp, "This Epic Adventure" (live) courtesy of K. Steeze (T.L.A.M.)

Mittwoch, 3 August
Super Boat Warp, "Threshold" (live) courtesy of K. Steeze (T.L.A.M.)