Book excerpt: The Iblis at Ludd by Talbot Mundy is about American Major Jim Grim and his conflict with his brigadier higher-up. It is up to Jim to reveal the sinister nature of the British Army's scandals of embezzlement and conspiracy. Excerpt: "AS a general rule when Major Jim Grim strode into the administrator's office in the former German hospice, now British headquarters in Jerusalem, it was to be greeted with that kind of confident familiarity that, from his official superior, warms the fiber of a man's being."