An apparent first edition in a book club dust jacket. 248pp, illustrated endpapers. In green cloth-covered boards, with gilt titles on spine. Boards a little rubbed and rounded on corners and spine tips. Text block edges slightly dust marked, else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. In its original, edge-rubbed, dust jacket, chipped at spine tips and corners. The story of a strong man panicked, a woman fighting for her life and a love gone wrong.