The Five Arrows

The author of last year's ""Falange"" (Putnam) uses his knowledge of that background in an adventure story of the Nazi penetration of South America. Styled on Hemingway, hard talk and virile byplays, as Matt Hall, bitter and belligerent after the war in Spain, goes down to San ??Hormazo, capital of one of the Latin American democracies, to investigate Falangist activites. His intervention unearths the facts behind the slow death of its liberal President -- and the subsequent election is turned towards a democratic candidate. Rough and rugged action, some sex (too much for some P.L.'s). Good of its kind. -- largely masculino.