Books: Round and Round

Round and Round WHEELS by Arthur Hailey. 374 pages. Doubleday. $7.95.

Arthur Hailey writes holding-pattern prose. He advances one of his homunculi three-and-a-half pages toward ruin, then puts him in a holding pattern and moves some other character a totter or two toward temptation. But just before the dread jaws of fee-fi-fo-fum snap shut, there is another shift of attention, and the reader must tremble in behalf of a third wretch who has been circling perdition for two chapters, waiting for permission to land.

In the hands of a lesser romancer, the damaged...

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