Although a serial killer makes a promising appearance, he quickly fades out of the frame, leaving the police to drop their inquiries into ''the most sensational, scariest murders the city had ever known'' for more mundane infractions of the peace. Brazil wasn't normal,'' in the opinion of his editor. That understates the weirdness of Andy, who is driven by an unhealthy obsession with police work.
Cotton Comes to Harlem'' and other boisterous adventures.
Jesse threatens Kriss. The story is pure ugly, but Himes put some powerful writing in it. Because the choices they have to make are so painful, so unfair, the effect on their lives is truly harrowing. Her instructor, an agent with the Israeli General Security Service, manipulates her into accepting a special mission in Bethlehem, where a church will be the next target. Meanwhile, a psychologist named Raba Alhassan, sister of the militant Arab who committed the playground massacre, is being coerced into a similar mission by the head of the terrorist organization.