Duel of Assassins

Daniel Pollock. Pocket Books, $5.5 (320pp) ISBN 978-0-671-70577-0

Readers will be both impatient and sorry to finish this espionage thriller about two agents, once close friends, pitted against each other in a plot to assassinate the Soviet president. (Mar.)

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