Naseer had himself returned from two jihadist camps in Pakistan full of tales of derring-do.
Eventually Western intelligence agencies, relying on traditional derring-do, penetrated the heart of the Khan operation.
So why, after his alleged flutter of derring-do, is Mr Singh not risking more to push it through?
"Quaint" doesn't begin to describe the settings:pounding surf, rugged cliffs, splendid isolation, sites of historic rescues and damp derring-do.
Last week, Vladimir Putin's Russia used a bit of undersea derring-do to remind us that chess is its national sport.
He then went on to tell tall tales about his wartime derring-do and about almost everything else that happened in his life.
Mehsuds also quote this, to illustrate their people's cunning and derring-do.
On the other hand, the Post also served up a double-dose of fatuous spin from Obama partisans about the President's derring-do as a hands-on leader in combating terrorism.
She was still only 26, a woman among 7, 000 (mostly) admiring men, carrying out daily acts of derring-do and revelling in a job she had plainly been born for.
Based on this belief system, we heap praise on businesses that reap lavish profits as reward for derring-do even as we deny charitable organizations access to fundamental best business practices.
While culinary derring-do has never been one of the town's primary draws, "serious dining" can now be included alongside London's famously revolutionary style, vibrant nightlife, aristocratic structures and sublime gardens.
The world urgently needs a pop geologist, and Winchester fills the bill--literally, since he inserts himself into Krakatoa as a recurring character, a geological Indiana Jones given to occasional feats of derring-do.
One of the most troubling characteristics of those who make a living doing arms control and other feats of diplomatic derring-do is their tendency to dissemble about the true nature of things.
The world has marveled at the derring-do of rescuers in the wake of southwestern China's killer earthquake and been heartened by the degree of official willingness to let outsiders share in the national grief.
But the Information Age, which had all the makings of a soulless IQ Age, has turned out differently than expected call it a Network Age, which commoditizes IQ and pushes value to speed, creativity and the kind of derring-do once thought reckless.
Ambrus' proclivity for derring-do would serve him well over the next decade as Hungary lurched uncertainly towards capitalism--and as a working-class population turned Ambrus into a hero as he robbed more than half a million dollars during 29 bank robberies in Budapest.
But the Information Age, which had all the makings of a soulless IQ Age, has turned out differently than expected -- call it a Network Age, which commoditizes IQ and pushes value to speed, creativity and the kind of derring-do once thought reckless.
During two decades of constipated economics and politics, the deadening sense grew that Japan had lost its appetite for risk, whether entrepreneurial derring-do or even, in the context of a population that had begun to shrink, the risk of picking the wrong mate.
Yet, almost against Mr May's better judgment, a sketchy profile of Grey's slightly unpleasant character emerges from these pages along with the suggestion that, by setting off over ocean or desert in search of his colourful and often improbable plots, he provided an example of adventurous derring-do that appealed irresistibly to the urban plumbers and mechanics for whom he knew he was writing.
But this is not some glossy site with stirring tales of derring do - it is a fascinating delve into the realities of getting to the moon.
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