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Show 2 t. Lhe Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, August 26, 1973 Exclusive Excerpts but the edge didnt last long Warn-baug- Jimmy felt the red light before seeing it, felt the heat from the red light seanng the back of his neck, ard he 1 was whispering, knew it, 1 knew it," even as he unzipped the brown leather jacket Greg had bought him, removed the .32 automatic Greg had bought him, and gingerly dropped it on the floor, kicking it across the car with his new thirty-fivdollar shoes. ' e "Just take it easy, it may be just a ticket, Creg said. But Jimmy could not take it easy. He leaped out of the car and looked into the eyes of Karl Hettinger, who was advancing slowly on the sidewalk: Police." Jimmy Smith froze at the sound of the word and threw his hands in the air. Karls pulse bucked. He glanced inside the car at Greg and quickly back at Jimmy standing stock still on the sidewalk hands,high in the air, though Karl had neither drawn his gun nor told Jimmy to raise his hands, and Karl knew for certain. There was something. Narcotics perhaps. They looked like hypes. Would said Ian to Greg, coming up on the out of your wallet?" Sure." Would you mind stepping out of the car? asked Ian, handing back the license. Greg placed the driver's license in the left front pocket of his leather jacket and lifted and loosed his gun. "Okay. Okay. Greg smiled, shaking his head and sighing, seeing Ian open the door and step back, seeing that Ian held only a flashlight in his band. Greg turned to his right to back out, then wheeled to his feet. Ian was looking at the Colt in Gregs hands and stepping backward slowly, unbelieving. Then Greg was behind him, holding him at the back by a handful of jacket. Hes Got a Gun on Me Karl had been watching Jimmy, who was licking his lips, stone still in the flashlights glare, and then Karl saw Ian coming around the car. Hes got a gun on me, said Ian. "Give him your gun. Were gonna let you go." Greg said to the policemen, "Get in the car. Where do you want me?" asked Ian, standing at the right side of the little maroon coupe. Behind the wheel," said Greg. Where do you want me? asked Karl. ' In the back." When they reached the valley floor, Jimmy Smith for the first time believed they were going to make it. I know where theres a dirt road, he said to Greg. I used to work around the Bakersfield area." Stop the car Greg said. "Turn off the lights. This is where were gonna let you go. Get out," Greg said. The two policemen faced Jimmy Smith, w ho stood several feet from the rear fender of the car, pointing his automatic at them. They were between two sections of onions just beginning to sprout now in the month of March, already pungent. And it may have been the onion or the wind or something else, but Ian Campbell wiped his eyes quickly and then raised his hands high again. We told you Gregory Powell said to lan Campbell, we were going to let you guys go, but have you ever heard of the Little Lindberg Law? Ian said, Yes." And Gregory Powell raised his arm and shot him m the mouth. The scream tore from Karls throat a second after the first bullet crashed into Ians mouth, when Karls nund actually comprehended that they were killing Ian Campbell. When the two men heard him they turned and saw Karl screaming and running, stumbling and running a zigzag course down the road, terror leaping from his face, white in the moonlight, yet with presence of mind to zigzag, change directions. Then Gregory Powell ran after Karl and Karl heard more explosions. He sobbed and dived head-firs- t to his left through a row of tumbleweed packed hard agaust the barbed wire farm fence, ripping his hands and face on the wire. He fell in the darkness still sobbing, then got up and balled up the ripped fabnc and pulled it up to his thigh and ran, one bar leg flashing in the moonlight. Deputy Joe Hylton recorded the time of the discovery of the body. It was 1.55 a.m., the precise moment of Gregory Powells capture a few miles away. Chief Fote was in the back of the Highway Patrol car with Gregory Powell and Greg was looking fearfully at the dozen uniformed officers surrounding the car. I Can I get a break if I talk, sir? Greg asked the big man. Can I get a break? If you r inftfesfeO in reeding tfte comeiale book, inquire o! your library or local bookilores The book moy oho be obtained by matt throuoh ihtt news paper Send your check or money order fo Newipoper Book Service. The Sait Lake Tribune. P 0. 801 11M. Ctucogo. HI 8061 1 Important: Add t cents to postage and handling. the price of each volume ordered to cover the cost Send check or money order only, not cosh. 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Utah residents add .22 tax. g the Kiangsi battlefield to the sanctuary of Yenan, the Chinese communist leadership paused in Tsunyi in January, 1935, for an epochal inner-partstruggle' over policy and power. i and other There, Chou challengers yielded to Mao whose strategy would bring victory in 1949. Her scheme of the power structure and her explanations of behavior are denved al- y most exclusively from personal linkage among the leaders and nval ambitions that she plots back to experiences in field the old revolutionary armies. En-la- Tsc-tun- Towering f igure r- - the uncertain health of the two giant figures, the speculation is endless as to who will be the .next to direct Chinas 800 million. Given Here enters Ching Ping, a teacher and journalist, offering new theories Peking-bor- and n jolting Mao generalizations that are likely to leave most many experts incredulous, general readers groDing and Peking officials enraged. Heir Apparent she Heirs Apparent, In tells us that Mao is already divested of effective power to the question Replying "What happens after Mao i she sees Chou dies? as a successor in league with regional military commanders Red whom she dubs the Warlords. Never mind what you have read elsewhere. Lin Piao, the recently disgraced Heir Apparent, was not as they say the hidden enemy of Mao but rather his ideological ally who was purged by Chou and the Red Warlords so that the chairman could be reduced to a figurehead. Further, Chou is the spirituthat al heir of Liu Shao-ch- i whom Mao purged from the post of president during the cultural revolution. True, Chou is a moderate and a pragmatist, but Miss Ching holds that all Chinese communist leaders are dedicated to the same scary aims, and besides, global behind his smile, Chou is the most effective foe of capitalism. En-la- Tse-tun- g Who Will Fill Chair? d translation of his wifes Chinese manusenpt. Lest the western reader be confused by Chinese names, such sobriquets as the Marshal, the Nuclear ing an English Dog-me- Monk and the Trigger-Finge- r were affixed to Chinese leaders, adding more to the titila-tion- s than the clarity of the text. Chiang Ching, wife of Mao, together with her closest collaborators in the cultural revolution, are described by Bloodworth in a postscript chapter written after his visit to Peking last year as the Shanghai Mafia. The book is devoted largely to the personal histones ot the Chinese leaders, their foibles being reported in extenso. Much of the new credited to friend tacts with first-han- lose ourselves in the innocuousness of life more than in the complicity of death. His Chief Inspector James is a ruefully thoughtful man whose fastidiousness makes him just to police work as as most of us are to our respective jobs. Sergeant Honeybody, his assistant, is a homelier type who contents himself with the perquisites of the job. He eats and drinks his way through each case as if every dead an demanded body wake. As for the younger communist military commanders, she views them simply as apolitical instruments immune to the ideological dynamics of the Maoist revolution. day-to-da- y cent detachment. There are all kinds of ways to escape. In A File On Death," Kenneth Giles encourages us to d material is and conknowl put indeed!" The disaffected clerk who stole the documents is described as the "source of all remarks" the scatological heard in his department. The indispensable vicar in the requisite country town shoots. Stuffs, mounts and sells birds to turn an extra penny. While he explains to James . and Honeybody that he has listened to every kind of prein his calling, he varication twists a shovellers beat into a more entertaining position. Creasey Book y- men must ask questions; but most of the answers they get have little or nothing to do with the crime and everything to do with the daily vicissitudes of life in our time. Some of us want to get at away for a few hours least halfway away. We want people, places and events that are real enough to pass our critical threshold and illusory enough to allow us to regard them with a compla- shall dine out on that. Well A Life For A Death by John Creasey as Gordon Ashe, as the dust wrapper will have it, is everything the other novel is not: pedestrian, humorless, mechanical without even that level of ingenuit- The author stresses all the as against the elements: incontrovertability of Sergeant Honeybodys colon, we now get top police officials who bark and match "gulp, womens eyes in laughter. We read the elevator hustled him up." Now, what good is such a sentence quite apart from the fact that it is inaccurate? The writing sounds as if Creasy avoided the natural on principle. The world is too much with many of us and serious fiction, despite all its virtues because of them, in fact offers us little relief from it. edge: They, however, remain anonymous. At times, the undocumented text left me with a feeling that I had been eavesdropping in a Chinese teahouse without being able to distinguish history from gossip. Power Structure Blood-wort- purge-deplete- surprising savoriness of bulls testicles, seethed in champagne and cooked Spanish style. When chief inspector James is put on a ticklish case of recovering documents detailing the scandalous behavior oi he people in high places, I just replies with dismay: catch criminals, civilian criminals. To which the British equivalent of a CIA man I suavely replies: "Very good. Little Relief Wholl take over from Mao? Today at 79, Chairman Mao still towers over the Chinese Precommunist movement y mier Chou, at 74, the the of manager Peoples Republic, ranks second. Below in the pohtburo, there is no obvious successor among their aged comrades or among Maos latter-darevolutionary collaborators m Shanghai or . the army chiefs. $5.95. mysteries are mere pretext for prying into the peculiarities of their people. When someone is murdered, police- the their on tea that "fair curdles the colon," as well as on the of improbable expedient of killing him? Some of the best British 'Heirs Apparent During the march from defeat for Honeybody comments, example, on a disappointing offer Good mystery writers have always known that man himself is the greatest mystery of all, more baffling than the most labyrinthine plot. And so they are gradually shifting the Who Killed emphasis from X? to "Who Was X," and what did he do that drove someone to the desperate and Egyptian pharoah who in Co., 192 For A Death, by as Gordon Creasey Ashe; Holt, Rineha-- t and Winston, 185 pp., $4.95. "Akhnaton, however, is not a mystery, though it has a great deal to do with The Mysteries. It is, as lovers of old Michael Rennie movies will have guessed, about the old gods and set up place a sort of God of Light. He course, murdered by Guard for his pains. Ken- John Akhnaton, a play in three acts, was written in 1937 and then, says Dame Agatha, quite literally lost. Here it is, dusted off and published for the first time. attempted to overthrow t by A Life oux, 236 pp., $7.95. you mind taking your license More character than plot ' Freezes, Raises Hands Police officers, dnvers side. 4 In the middle 30s, Dame then just plain Miss Agatha undertook a jourChristie ney to Egypt with her husband, archaeologist Max E. L. Mallow an. By Joseph Wambaugh From the book The Onion Field, by Joseph Delacorte Press, $8 95. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. Greory Powell glanced into the rear-viemirror, tightened his grip on the steering wheel, and said: Cops! his light, V play found 'Hes got a gun flashing Two mysteries Old Christie Best Sellers New York Times Service This onalvsis is bosed on reooris obtoined from more then 250 bookstores in 110 communities of the United Stales. Lost This Week Week FICTION 1 Breokfost of ChampI ions. Vonnegut 2 The Hollow Hills. 2 Stewart 3 Once is Not Enough. 3 Susann 4 Facing The Lions. S Wicker 5 The Billion Dollar Sure 6 Erdmon Thing. 6 Harvest Home Tryon 7 The Summer Before The 10 Dork. Lessing fl The Matlock Paper Ludlum 9 The Odessa File 7 Forsyth 10 The Curse 01 The 6 Kings. Holt GENERAL 1 The Jov of Sex. 2 36 Comfort 2 Dr Atkins Diet Revo19 lution. Atkins 13 3 Sybil. 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