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the book page Wartime spy book assumes to Reviewed by STEPHEN GAUER Dragon Spoor is the first novel of new cloak and dagger series called Special Opera tions Executive S0E writ ten by Canadian playwright Jack Crisp Crisp worked with the real life S0E behind enemy lines during World War 11 so its reasonable to assume he has an insiders knowledge of the organization hes writing about The problem with the novel is that Crisp gets so car ried away with telling spy story that he neglects the basics of characterization and credible plotting GOOD ACTION The plot isnt strikingly original but it should serve as the basis for good action novel Donald Palmer 50 yearold Toronto photographer and former S0E agent is called to England by Colonel Mark Sherwood the head of S0E Palmers mission is to locate priceless art collection stolen by the Nazis during the war The art hes searching for has been hidden for 30 years by mysterious and evil organiza tion known as Dragon Spoor Palmer quickly jOInS forces with young American woman suitably sexy and smart as spy novel heroines must be who has the information needed to locate the art treasures With Lise llesautels at his side Palmer follows trail of death and deception through Germany France and Spain to violent climax on small island off the Spanish coast The book is filled with car toon villains la Ian Fleming By Brian Davies Plea for the ha NO one expects book by Brian Davies to be objective and Seal Song Penguin Books 88 pages $595 isnt It is an explicit plea for the harp seal to whose welfare Davies has devoted his life Back in the early 19605 this was certainly good cause The seal hunt was wide open Killlt ing was unregulated The herd was declining and looked as though it might suffer extinc tion Davies was at first concerned with cruelty Baby seals were butchered by dreadful methods he said and were sometimes skinned alive But now he has changed his ground It is not cruelty that he pposes but killing He wants to see sealing banned forever regardless of the methodsused Seal Song has some good points It is beautifully il lustrated with superb photographs of seals by Eliot Porter There is fairly ac curate very brief account of the seals life history There are some technical faults caption numbers fail to match the pictures there is no bibliography or index but on the whole the book is technically good The text is skimpy mere 14000 words about onefifth the length of regular book and has some slight inaccuracies Davies does not understand the use of the terms beater and bedlamer for example but you can generally trust him ex cept when he expresses An opi nion STRANGE VIEWS He has some very strange opinions indeed If IFAW lntemational Fund for Animal Welfare gives up the killing will go on until the last seal pup dies or another dedicated organization perseveres until the hunt is banned Surely Davies must know that this is nonsense Why must the choice be either banning the hunt or killing the last pup Back in the t950s and 19605 the seals were truly in danger In decade of frantic over killing the herd shrank from three million to fewer than one million but today the seals are increasing their numbers are much Ammmm and plenty of counters that give Palmer chance to show how quick footed he is despite the toll of middle age Palmer becomes kind of standin for any man who fantasizes about escaping the boring routine of to Sjob with the stultifying dullness of his married life by contrast Europe represents romance adventure and excitement Palmer gets his highs by reliv ing the risks and Violence he ex perienced during the war and once hes beyond the clutches of weathy wife he feels free to play the role of macho secret agent AWKWARI Crlsps writing style wont w1n him any awards the point of his series is to provide entertainment not literary iii sight into the spy world Still his prose often lumbers awkwardly when it should soar with excitement his dialogue is competent at best and the trail of cliches that wind throughthe novel is so ob trusive that the demanding reader may wince rp seal well over million and there is no reason to think they will ever grow less To picture them as an en dangered species or to suggest as Davies does that the ana dian government is party to plot to destroy them is plainly ridiculous There is no more conspiracy to destroy the seals than there is to destroy the lobsters or salmon This book is an emotional plea to stop the seal hunt That is legitimate enough Perhaps we should stop commercial hunting of all wild animals But if the grounds are humanistic then there are far more dread ful things going on than the seal hunt Trapping for instance is an absolute atrocity in which animals closely related to our domestic dogs and cats are routinely tortured to death Why when foxes bobcats martens and many others are killed with the utmost barbari ty do we confine our protests to the painless slaughter of seals Are we just incurable hypocrites serious important work documents seal hunt protest Season Of The Seal by Calvin Coish Breakwater Books Ltd pages $495 goes far to ex plain the seeming hypocrisy much more informative book than Seal Song it is five times as long includes history of the hunt life history of the seal and for the first time documents in detail the origin and growth of the in ternational protest against sealing The protests began in 1964 with widely distributed hor ror film in which the seal was skinned alive Some of the sealers shown in the film later proved to be members of the film crew and the man who skinned the seal alive signed confession stating he had been paid by the photographers to do it But the film once released found its way around the world posing as documentary set ting off shock waves that have not died down even today The protests engendered soon grew into milliondollar busmess for the professional protesters and any respect they may have had for the truth soon went out the window Though oish an outport Newfoundlander tries to document the history of the hunt and the controversy as im partially as he can in the end he comes down heavily on the side of the sealers and slips in to outright propaganda He is too fond of lengthy quotations from sealing apologists Much of what he quotes is absolute drivel VOICE OF REASON Despite these defects Season Of The Seal is far more useful book than Seal Song It includes nearly all of Davies information plus great deal more It has lull in dex and bibliography and could be used equally well for reference by people on either side of the controversy oish gives you vastly more for five bucks than Davies gives for six Left out of the controversy by both sides are the people to whom seals matter most the Inuit of anadas north and the white fishermen of Labrador and the Gulf of St Lawrence The public interest would best be served by stopping the commercial hunt by the sealing ships and increasing the quota allowed these landsmen pro portionately 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