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I wonder if this droll, clever farce of a spy novel was intended to answer the question “What would the opposite of a James Bond story be like?” Perhaps it is irony that the main character is ridiculously pretending to look for Communists in Cuba in a book published one year before Castro took over. (One can only appear so foolish if one is in fact marvelously prescient.)