Books: P.W. Story

HORNED PIGEON (434 pp.)—George Millar—Doubleday ($2.75).

Readers of George Millar's first book were left with two impressions: that he was one of the most promising young British writers, and that he was mighty unhappy about something. Waiting in the Night (TIME, Jan. 14) told of Millar's parachuting into France a few months before Dday, to work with the Maquis. Author Millar hinted that he had volunteered for the job because something mysterious was gnawing his heart & soul. "I wanted a useful death and then peace," he said darkly; "I was thirty-three and so...

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