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UEST IN COMMAND, by Berkeley Ibout a wicked steel baron who i one—wicked. Norman Conquest red £5,000 to kidnap the Baron’s i: he refused—but found that a es or no was no answer, according multi - millionaire’s vocabulary.

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OY, by Anne Duffield. What “The lid for a previous generation, this uld do for this. The heroine is a )ld blonde and the hero/villain Arkady Petrov a not-so-red They romp around everywhere Persia, the US and Siberia—and i them to it with the pious hope mg, silent Russians are not going ne the heroes of a new crop of : novelists. (GREAT PAN). -■LA, by Stuart Cloete. Something iod piece in spite of having been in 1958. Men and women shrink i Englishman who has degraded by living “kaffir”—when everyone >f course, that in 1960 this kind king isn’t being done any more, place in Portuguese African terri erhaps that makes a difference.

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GIGANTIC SHADOW, by Julian A thriller with a strange twist and based on that newest of —TV, with which it is now to be associated than the movies re old stuff. (FONTANA).

OF SILENCE by David Beaty, who page out of the late Nevii Shute’s writing about aviation. He’s got reason, too—he’s a veteran of 160 crossings with BOAC, and writes thority on the airline business. > crashes the latest British jet— the Comet—in Pakistan, and is for it although he knows that he iccording to the book. Where did t lie? That’s the theme of this

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>N’S MONTH, by J. J. Marric. the logical successor to the other s”. This Scotland Yard sleuth eady had, If you remember, a i “Night” and a “Week”. The gives him more scope—and he’s

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COLLEGE HARRY, by David Elias. This is a true crime story, a biography of a con-man, ex-thief, cat burglar, safebreaker and what-not. College Harry—who seems to have started off his career at Cambridge, hence the nick-name—is said to have carried off some of the most profitable and daring crimes in police history.

But manages to be a real gentleman in spite of it. (GREAT PAN).

ST th T‘ie b s »rriv. k r ofTi once lucrative industry—writing Westerns. aU the USUaI in S redlents -

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END OF HATE, by Russell Braddon.

This is the sequel to the same author’s “The Naked Island’’ which described his experiences as a Jap POW. This book tells of his attempt to adjust himself to a world not at war which he finds singularly difficult. He went back to the Uni versity but failed in Law and then, still filled with hate for his late captors, he

travelled the world writing and lecturing, trying to bring home to the rest of man kind something of his own feelings. What finally got it out of his system was the “insidious influence of the British” with whom he lived. (Braddon is an Australian.)

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MARION, by John Bingham. A suspense thriller about a female who looked like

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Hornblower In The West Indies,

by g Forester. Hornblower at this stage is a Rear-Admiral, C-in-C of the West Indies. There is a satisfying number of pirates, slavers, kidnappers and hurricanes to satisfy even the most ardent of fans— and of course Hornblower beats them all * n end - (GREAT PAN), (Our copies from Wm. Collins (Overseas), Ltd. Australian price all 3/9.)