Condition Very Good: Original dust jacket, price-clipped, shows mild edgewear, with creasing and chip loss present along the top edge and inside flaps.
Panels clean overall; artwork and lettering bright and vibrant.
Slight bumping to the corner tips of publisher's original binding.
Else fine, with morse code decorative element and gilt lettering sharp and well-defined.
Binding square and firm.
Decorative pastedowns immaculate; previous owners notes in pen present in endpapers.
Internally, the book's pages are bright, clean and fresh.
A handsome, well-preserved copy.
Description First Edition, First Printing.
Jonathan Cape, 1966.
An early first issue hardback with original dust jacket is increasingly sought after by collectors of 20th-century espionage and thriller fiction.
A desirable first printing that represents a key title in Deighton's celebrated Cold War oeuvre.
A high-stakes Cold War thriller follows a brilliant industrialist entangled in international intrigue, corporate espionage, and assassination plots.
Deighton delivers taut plotting, suspenseful action, and sharp social observation in a gripping tale of power and peril.