First edition, first impression (true first). Prelims plus 180pp. Pale green endpapers. In blue cloth covered-boards with silver lettering to spine. (Boards strong and clean, a little shelf wear, very slightly cocked). Internally neat, clean bright and tight. In its original dust jacket (spine a little faded, mild shelf wear visible). The dust jacket is now protected in an archival-quality mylar wrapper, fitted without the use of adhesives or tape. Ted Allbeury was a British author, writing mainly espionage fiction. He served as an intelligence office in the Special Operations Executive during the second world war, and is said to have been the only British Secret Agent who parachuted into Nazi Germany during the war and remained there until the Allied armies arrived. He wrote over forty novels, often drawing on his wartime experience, some of which were published under the pen names Patrick Kelly and Richard Butler.
