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...because she is a French army brat and parental love is at parade rest. Papa is a cavalry colonel, more interested in charges than children, while Mama is a Spanish noblewoman too haughty for tender talk. What daughter knows about affection comes from spying on peasant maids and their trooper lovers on a slumbering military post before World War II. And what she learns of life comes from Daddy's batman, a sporting type named Killer, whose off-duty kicks come from impaling jack-lighted wildlife on the iron spikes attached to the grille of his Jeep...
...defend his action in a hearing this week. Just as quickly, the Governor decided to go catfishing, well out of subpoena range. Unable to track him down, U.S. deputy marshals lamely delivered three summonses: two left at Davis' office and one dropped at the feet of a state trooper who answered the door at the Governor's mansion...
...shown his mastery of the Southwestern scene. In this novel he writes, as usual, with a fine cinematographic flair, and there are impressive wide-screen episodes: a gun fight at a water hole in the gullied, mountain-rimmed desert near Fort Delivery; the punishment of a cowardly trooper who, before the eyes of the assembled garrison, is branded on the hips with the letter D for deserter; the Indian encampment of Rainbow Son-Horgan's fictional version of Geronimo-deep in Mexico's Sierra Madre. Curiously, the battlescapes are poorly drawn, and may result from Horgan...
Harder than Water. In Hartford, Conn., a state police sign warns motorists: "He who takes one for the road will get a trooper for a chaser...
...Interior Minister Gerhard Schroeder, 49, was a Hitler storm trooper in 1933, a Nazi Party member...