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TRUMPETS FROM THE STEEP (268 pp.)-Diana Cooper-Houghfon Mifflin...
GREEN HENRY (706 pp.)-Gottfried Keller, translated by A. M. Holt-Grove...
DECISION AT DELPHI, by Helen MacInnes (434 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; $4.95), is a reasonably diverting romance that is not as taut as it should be because its tale of dark doings in Greece and Sicily is interleaved with too much travel gush. The author's proposition is that a band of left-of-Moscow terrorists in present-day Greece plans to set the Balkans afire by assassinating Marshal Tito. The wandering innocent who runs afoul of and eventually vanquishes these unpleasant plotters is an American architect named Strang. His wily adversary is a monster of plumbless evil who calls...
...DOOMED OASIS, by Hammond Innes (314 pp.; Knopf; $3.95), is a stouthearted attempt to win back the desert from the venery-in-Araby school-Paul Bowles and Frederic Prokosch-and return it to the unperfumed condition described by that old camel trammeler, Foreign Legion Novelist Percival Christopher (Beau Geste) Wren. The Legion defends no forts in this tale, but there is an outfit called the Trucial Oman Scouts and there is, as a matter of fact, a defended fort. There is also some rousing prose, not all of it defensible. The book opens with: "Call Aubrey George Grant! The moment...
...KILLED SOCIETY? (599 pp.)-Cleveland Amory-Harper...