ORDEAL—Nevil Shute—Morrow ($2.50). At dawn Peter Corbett, junior partner of Johnson, Bellinger & Corbett, rose drunkenly from the clammy garage floor. He was wet, grease-smeared, his head ached and he ...
THE CHEQUER BOARD (380 pp.)—Nevil Shute—Morrow ($2.75). As a reserve lieutenant commander in the British Navy in World War II, Novelist Nevil Shute observed that the behavior of U.S. Negro troops was ...
PIED PIPER—Nevil Shute—Morrow ($2.50). Pied Piper reads like a semi-final draft for one of the best sentimental novels to come out of World War II. The telling is not all it might be, but the ...