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Among the bushes by the side of the east road out of Crebillon stands young Perry with her suitcase. This is the top of the long red hill, and upcoming cars and truck always hesitate here to shift gears. It is late and the moon is high in the bowl when a small black car begins the climb up the hill... And we're off to Mr. Benefield's latest enchantment Eddie and the Archangel Mike. When that small black car stops there on the road out of Crebillon, young Perry and her case go into it; and lucky is the reader who is also in it as it rolls away north by east. Lucky reader, for he has entered upon an adventure that will take him into the well-known newspaper world, into the little-know world of Brooklyn, and into that special Benefield world where wild wooden horses may at any moment stampede across the landscape-- not surprisingly at all but most delightfully. The thousands of readers with whom Mr. Benefield's previous novels have left warm and affectionate memories will find here again the elements which always make his stories bright spots in contemporary fiction-- a cast of characters who will live with and laugh with and love; sudden dramatic situations that turn the heart upside down; a story-telling way that is swift and smooth and superbly skillful. Lovely, crazy, tender, generous, gallant Eddie and the Archangel Mike-- it is a shining gift to a dimout world.