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Praise for Robert Merle’ s

THE DAYOF THE DOLPHIN

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times: “A provoca-tive and altogether chilling science-fiction thriller—an łan Fleming with humanity. Mr. Merle manages to weave in all the actual known data about dolphins so skillfully that the linę between reality and

Peter S. Prescott, Look: “Has an uncanny aura of immediacy. I found the book often funny . . . sometimes poignant, a thoroughly enjoyable story . . . provocative and uncommonly entertaining.” Richard Condon: “This profound human comedy is frighteningly significant—The Darkness at Noon o £ its time.”

Joseph Kessel: “An admirable success. All the characters are intensely, truły alive—including those extraordinary dolphins, so much morę in-telligent, so much morę moving, so much morę human than man.” John Barkham, Saturday Review Syndicate: “A scathing satire, but one so imaginative and cleverly rooted in the present as to temper the reader’s chuckles with chagrin.”

Cornelius Ryan: “An awesome, terrifying experience. Much, much morę than a suspenseful thriller—it is a heartbreaking portrait of the way in which the modern world of power politics and espionage dis-

Josephine Johnson: “Tremendously moving. I Wed the dolphins, and the last pages of the escape frightened me with real terror such as I haven’t known in a long time.”

Hal Burton, Newsday: “An unusual and important novel... a won-derful whodunit, a story of espionage, and an exceedingly touching