Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

I finished a book yesterday by Charles Cummings, "The Moroccan Girl", which is an amazing read.  I enjoy Cummings' spy novels, as they are in the vein of John Le Carre and point out current social issues in a way that is palatable and sometimes profound.  I especially adored "The Constant Gardener" by Carre.  Cummings' book is gripping, and so current it takes your breath away.  The setting in Morocco is terrific, and the humor and honesty of a protagonist who is a spy novelist hankering to get a little real action in, engaging.  But it is the politics of the book that is most powerful and surprising.  I won't spoil it by delineating the plot, but keep going, for page by page the story gets better and better.  This book is as fresh as today's headlines, and yet has dialogues that force the reader to think in deeper and more complex ways.  The reader joins in the arguments, and comes out perhaps having to rethink all his/her ideas.