THE SHADOWBOXER by Noel Behn. 31 7 pages. Simon & Schuster. $5.95.
By now, jaded readers of international spy fiction expect to get two books in one: a perversely complicated thriller and a perverted sado-sexual romp at least as inventive as the wares on the pornography shelf. The Shadowboxer is expertly fitted out to supply both.
As labyrinthine as the author's best-selling Kremlin Letter, it is set mostly in Central Europe late in World War II. The adversaries are a depraved lot of American military and a handful of German exiles—who all want to beat the Allies at setting up the postwar government...