First edition, first impression. 348pp. Black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine (boards clean, strong and square, a little dust marked at extremities). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket (a tad bumped at edges). Dust jacket now protected in an archival-quality Mylar wrapper which is not adhered to the jacket or book in any way. After a botched job leaves a bloody trail, Government assassin John Milton does the one thing he's never done before: he hides.
Modern Fiction Firsts, thriller,
