Books: Trouble Is Enough

MEMOIRS OF A SOLDIER OF FORTUNE—General Rafael de Nogales—Harrison Smith ($3.75).

Looking like Peck's bad boy, Venezuelan General Nogales stands in full Turkish uniform in the frontispiece of his book to give readers a foretaste of mischief to come. It comes: should the supply run short in one hemisphere there is bound to be plenty in the other. The doughty general craves trouble as a cat craves fish, can nose it from afar. Do or die is no mere shibboleth to him, but sober truth. "For certain men not to do is to die, to die a spiritual and very disagreeable...

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