The Midnight Patient, by Egon Hostovsky (Appleton-Century-Crofts; $3), is a spy thriller about a psychiatrist who gets involved in a plot to blow up New York City. Blowing up New York, of course, is an idea that comes to everybody in the big city sooner or later, but Author Hostovsky has worked off his urge with uncommon ingenuity. The analyst is asked by a U.S. secret agent to examine another agent who has suddenly lost his nerve on the eve of his biggest assignment. For $20,000 the doctor agrees to treat the man every midnight. All at once the analyst does...
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