BOOK REVIEW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01350R000200740016-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 20, 2004
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: February 3, 1968
• Content Type: NSPR

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Vanished, by Fletcher Knebel
(Doubleday) : K n e b e 1, who
is somewhat of a specialist In
i the novel of Washington intrigue
("Seven Days in May," which
he wrote with Charles W. Bailey
11, and "Night of Camp
David"), offers as his latest
entry In the genre an absorbing
suspense novel.
The title refers to the
disappearance of S t e p h e n
Greer, a close associate of a
future U.S. President facing a
reelection campaign. Greer
walked away from the fourth
green at the-exclusive Burning
Tree Club and was seen no
more. His sudden exit prompted
a buzz of rumor, particularly
when It was learned that he had
been secretly meeting a bril-
liant young. mathematician and
had been in occasional touch
with a Nobel; Prize physicist-
both of whom have also
vanished. {
From the outset, it, is!
apparent that high-level inter-'
ests are. involved. The FBI,i
called In on the assumption thati
Greer may have been kid
napped, Is forced.to work under'
and narrator of much of the
book, is kept In the dark.
The Intervention of the CIA,
against the express order of"the
White House, brings Knebel's
"President Roudebush" head to
head with. the politically potent
agency chief.
of! the reviewing trade to reveal
the end of a novel of this type,
but it can fairly be said that it
is unexpected-and, alas, not
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