Mamista

By Len Deighton

Book Overview

Set in the jungles of South America, in the back corridor of power in Washington, and in the poverty-stricken towns of Spanish Guiana, MAMista is a dynamic story of revolution, espionage and passion... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061090948
• ISBN13: 9780061090943
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: HarperTorch
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Morality and Spycraft

Comparing Len Deighton to Tom Clancy works only in that both authors choose from time to time to operate in the shadow world of espoinage. In a Clancy novel there is never any doubt who wears the white hat; it is this distinction that separates Deighton from Clancy. A generation back the comparison between Deighton and Clancy would have been Graham Greene and Ian Fleming. Which you choose says more about the types of novels you read than which story you preferred.MAMista is a story written by an author quite comfortable examining the moral ambiguities presented, with good detail to his fictional surroundings, direct in his presentation, and very agile in his story-telling abilities. The characters always come alive with the story, including some minor ones you'd rather not have done so. The only complaint; in setting the mood so well, Deighton can go on a bit more than necessary. This is a minor flaw in an otherwise graceful novel.

Is a good story and moves quickly, but.....

I read this book right after a Tom Clancy novel, and well, it's hard to compete with the master, Tom Clancy. I would probably have enjoyed this more if I had read it first. The plot just wasn't near as exciting as the the Clancy book, and I think that did play a part in my opinion of this book. All in all though, it was a good book and well written