Description: The Man with the President’s Mind, by Ted Allbeury. Simon & Schuster, $8.95.
Allbeury’s novel deals with a subtle attempt by the Russians to anticipate American presidential decisions: The KGB duplicates the American President’s environment – complete with Oval Office, American TV and newspapers – and places within it one Andrei Levin, a leading Russian psychologist, to play President. That he does so with remarkable accuracy seems amusing and harmless enough, until we learn that the KGB is plotting a military takeover of Western Europe and using Levin to achieve its ends without American interference.