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...urgency of war communiques: "The traffic jam is now approaching Lyon . . . It is now impossible to pass through Avignon . . . Accidents have blocked all roads into Aix." In Italy, three-quarters of the population of Milan fled the city. Rome, Florence, Naples and Genoa were dead, and Capri, Elba, Rimini and Viareggio as jammed as Coney Island on the 4th of July. Thousands of vacationers had to stand twelve hours in railroad coaches to reach the sea. In Spain, the government had moved from Madrid to San Sebastian, and was nearly trampled under the influx of French tourists, who this year...
...chill at an outdoor reception, 20,000 people filed past her bier and Paris was flooded with pamphlets hailing la bonne Josephine. Bonaparte was virtually the last to get the news. A valet clipped the story out of a Genoa newspaper and sent it to the former Emperor on Elba...
...Elba. Gilbert conspicuously shunned such runaway U.S. swindlers as Lowell Birrell and Earl Belle, and their revolving blondes. "I may be one of the boys," he snapped, "but I'm not one of those boys." Instead, Gilbert went to the movies, hoping to see himself in the newsreels (he didn't), cultivated a voodoo priest ordained in spirit vibrations, and passed one weekend with Novelist John Dos Passes discussing the works of Daphne du Maurier because Gilbert had recently read her but never Dos Passes. Each day Gilbert studied the Wall Street Journal, which a thoughtful...
...that he had written $1,953,000 in company checks for his personal use and submitted his resignation as president of the company. That evening, while the directors brooded about what action to take, Gilbert paid cash for the last seat aboard a plane for Brazil to join an Elba of fugitive U.S. financiers that already includes multimillion-dollar Swindler Lowell Birrell and Texas Insurance Embezzler Ben-Jack Cage...
...setting is the tiny island of Pianosa, just south of Elba, in the final months of World War II. Here the Army Air Forces maintains a bomber squadron, but it is a squadron that never was or could have been on land, sea or air. For Author Heller has peopled his first novel with madmen-not routine flyboy madmen, but men whose every act is exuberantly, viciously, tragically irrational...