FICTIONTHE NEGOTIATOR by Frederick Forsyth (Bantam: $5.95)....

FICTION

THE NEGOTIATOR by Frederick Forsyth (Bantam: $5.95). It’s deja vu when the Arabs again control the oil market, only this time glasnost places the Soviets in an untenable position and a group of Americans toss a match onto the flammable fray.

ALMOST HEAVEN by Judith McNaught (Pocket: $4.95). Four men suit up--one reluctantly--for the hand in marriage of a presently penniless heiress.

DON’T TELL ALFRED by Nancy Mitford (Carroll & Graf: $7.95). Characters from “Love in a Cold Climate” and “The Blessing” return and take up residence at the British Embassy in Paris.

MY SECRET HISTORY by Paul Theroux (Ivy: $5.95). Travel writer traverses the globe in search of unexplored worldly--and womanly--terrain.

THE PUSHCART PRIZE XIV 1989-1990: Best of the Small Presses, edited by Bill Henderson with the Pushcart Prize editors (Penguin: $9.95). Annual collection of short stories, essays and poetry by both aspiring and established writers.

NONFICTION

DRUNKEN GOLDFISH & OTHER IRRELEVANT SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH by William Hartston (Fawcett Crest: $4.95). Obscure and incredible studies undertaken in earnest.

ALL HIS FATHER’S SINS by Lt. Ray Biondi and Walt Hecox (Pocket: $4.50). Gerald Gallego and an affluent girlfriend haunt suburban malls targeting unsuspecting victims who make up his fantasy harem.

GOLDWYN: A Biography by A. Scott Berg (Ballantine: $12.95). Former glove salesman’s life contains all the elements of one of his stellar films.

WEST OF EDEN: The End of Innocence at Apple Computer by Frank Rose (Penguin: $8.95). During three turbulent years the company went from its pinnacle to precipice due to an internal power struggle.

INTELLECTUALS by Paul Johnson (Perennial: $10.95). Johnson scrutinizes the personal attributes of thinkers who have had an indelible impact on modern American history, including Rousseau, Marx and Hemingway.

SELF-HELP / REFERENCE

VICTIMS NO LONGER: Men Recovering From Incest and Other Sexual Child Abuse by Mike Lew (Perennial: $14.95). Using advice and counsel often directed toward women, Lew addresses the millions of men who need healing.

OPENING OUR HEARTS TO MEN by Susan Jeffers Ph.D. (Fawcett: $9.95). Author recommends that women call a truce in the cold war between the sexes.