Books: Hollywood Diver

DANGER IS MY BUSINESS — John D. Craig—Simon & Schuster ($3).

What makes an adventurer? Though hundreds of adventurers have lived to tell the tale, few have attempted an answer to the question. In Danger Is My Business, Captain John D. Craig, Hollywood’s best-known deep-sea photographer, who will photograph the salvage work on the Lusitania this summer, starts his autobiography by pondering himself and his kind. An adventurer’s courage, says Craig, “is simply something that keeps logic from working … it is something—like blue eyes or red hair or six fingers—which some men have and others do not. . . .” Despite this analytical beginning, Danger Is My Business is just another fast-moving, breezily written adventure book. But its last half —devoted to deep-sea diving—adds interesting variety to the hackneyed pattern of adventure tales.