First edition.
Novel involving gold smuggling during World War II by a newspaper man and retired Air Force colonel, who was, among other things, an advance man for General Eisenhower, the first newspaperman to become a paratrooper, and a press agent featured twice in Ripley's Believe-it-ot-Not.
INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and dated in 1983.
429 pp.
Very near fine in olive green cloth (corners slightly bumped) in a very good dustjacket.
(minor edgewear, slit on spine of dj)