["The Breadfruit Lotteries"] is a witty and steamily sensual narrative that shows what can happen to a relatively staid Columbia professor of history and politics when, vacationing with a lovely lady on the island of Jamaica, he finds his remote past as an O.S.S. operative catching up with him….

If I have any complaint to make about the book, it is the unusual one that it could have been longer, it is that entertaining. On the other hand, it's plain that Mr. Elman, who wastes not a word, hardly needs instruction in how to turn out a winner.