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From blue-eyed and sometimes red-haired Kashmiris and the Chinese-Tibetans from Sikkim or Darjeeling, through all the shades of coffee of the heartland, right down to dark-skinned, often curly-haired, Dravidians from southern India, you soon realize there’s no such thing as a “typical” Indian.
' When that something is the theft of the development codes for the entire U.S. nuclear arsenal, however, such discretion shades into dereliction of duty of the worst kind.
There are just shades of brown and grey, a line of trees--a dark scribble like markings done by a child.
Or consider Robin Cook's thriller Chromosome 6 . Molecular biologist Kevin Marshall works at a secret lab in Africa (shades of Moreau) fiddling with the DNA of apes to render their organs immunologically fit for transplanting into rich Americans.
"[F]ast and funny with real moments of poignancy" (Yahlin Chang, Newsweek ) and "one of those rare occasions when a highly touted book fulfills the excitement" ( Publishers Weekly ). Some critics detect shades of the single-gal dippiness of Bridget Jones's Diary , but most say that this is much more witty and sophisticated.