Not quite ""On The Road To Mandalay"" this does tour its hero, blithe Michael Darroch, from Scotland to Baghdad in response to his dead father's last, communication. En route he finds, in accordance with the ""witch of Bendor's"" preview, plenty of trouble, a girl, and, on arrival, action plus casual killings. This adds up to that -- and Michael scunners Communist toeholds to his own good. Fair game.