AROUND THE WORLD CONFIDENTIAL

by Lee Mortimer ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 7, 1956

From Ziff-Davis to Crown to Putnam -- the publisher path of the Confidential books, which together have sold some 6 million copies. Now- having fouled the home nest with the low down on New York, Chicago, Washington -- and points north, south, east and west --Mortimer turns his acquisitive instincts to the sordid story the world around. Nineteen cities in Europe, the Middle East and Asia are x-rayed to reveal their wickedness at all levels,- political, economic, social. Mortimer -- as in the other books done with Jack Lait- has perfected the blend of police blotter and scandal sheet. This time, so closely intertwined that they must be judged jointly, he has combined sex, crime, corruption, perversion with a determined effort to link the whole unpalatable chain together with Communist infiltration and flow of information. There's plenty of startling and horrifying information here (we hope some of it is mis information) which leaves one with a sense that nothing we were taught, nothing we believe can be depended on. Persons are named and, by bald statement and innuendo, reputations are blasted. One winds up with a shuddering sense that Home side in- is best, and the oceans not wide enough. A book that will- alas sell and be accepted by the people who want to believe; while those who might do something about it will reject even what they should know. How to lose friends and influence the wrong people.

Pub Date: March 7, 1956

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Putnam

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1956

Categories: NONFICTION