Brothers
Brothers by William Goldman, published by Grafton in 1986, is a fiction novel that serves as a sequel to Marathon Man. This edition spans 319 pages and is presented in English. The narrative follows the Levy brothers, with Thomas now a history professor at Columbia University, while Scylla, a secret agent previously thought dead, is reactivated by the U.S. government as a top-level assassin.
Readers will encounter a complex plot that intertwines the lives of the brothers against a backdrop of Washington policymaking, where science becomes a weapon in a conflict between opposing factions. Scylla’s mission involves eliminating two scientists whose groundbreaking methods pose a significant threat. The story unfolds through a series of violent and seemingly unrelated events, ultimately leading to an ironic conclusion that ties the narrative threads together.
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In this belated sequel to Marathon Man Goldman jumps several years into the future of the Levy brothers. Thomas is now a history professor at Columbia, and Scylla, the lethal secret agent left for dead in New York’s Lincoln Center, has been restored and reactivated as a top-level killer by his shadowy masters in the U.S. government. In the nether world of Washington policymaking science has become a major weapon in a bizarre struggle between hawks and doves, and Scylla’s assigned role is to eliminate two scientists whose invention of new creative killing methods may be more dangerous than the problem they set out to solve. The imaginative, if sometimes bizarre, plot winds its way through seemingly unconnected episodes of considerable violence before reaching an ironic conclusion which pulls all the threads together.
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