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The Army Game

J. G. FARRELL The I.R.A. Tim Pat Coogan (Pall Mall 45s) In May 1940 a German spy called Herman Goertz parachuted into Ireland from s a Heinkel with the intention of making con-......

Poisoned Wells

HENRY TUBE Mr Sammler's Planet Saul Bellow (Weiden4 feld and Nicolson 35s) It seems no time at all since ambitious North American novelists were trying to capture something......