Books: The Cain in Spai

FANDANGO ROCK (371 pp.)—John Masters—Harper ($4.50).

To the list of American girls who have spread commotion merely by traveling abroad—from Pocahontas to Henry James's Daisy Miller—must now be added the name of Catherine Fremantle. Strong-souled and sturdily uppered, she is the daughter and soul support of the suet-brained information officer at a U.S. Air Force base in Spain. The trouble is that Catherine's old man has messed things up. To the natives, if a .fi sh floats dead in the river, it is because the yanquis have irradiated the water supply. If a...