26 DECEMBER 1958, Page 20

The Power Gods. By Bud Clifton. (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 12s.

6d.) Nevada's equivalents of our own (by comparison) rather disarminglY decent and dandyish Teddy-boys are motor bicycle-borne adolescent hoodlums who, in thi book, are led by a tiger of a golden-haired gir into armed robbery and a killing or so. Extreme( exciting, with something of a documentary qualit about its presentation of life in the Western-deser jet-set.