Books: Bally hooey

THE GREEK—Tiffany Thayer—Boni ($2.50).*

Tiffany Thayer is audacious; he keeps telling you so, just in case you might forget it. But his strenuous manner is more a form of nervousness than a cloak for really big doings. Publisher Claude Kendall ballyhooed Author Thayer into a bestseller; now he has changed his publisher but not his key.

Principal audacities in The Greek: mak-ing himself (under his own name) the hero; showing a "seduction scene" by means of dialog. The story: Hero Thayer, vacationing with his wife in Europe, encounters a handsome young Greek, by name...