First edition, first printing. 256pp. Cream coloured cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on spine (boards are clean, strong and fresh, with sharp edges and corners, very slightly rounded at spine tips). Internally neat, clean and bright. In it original, bright and clean dust jacket (just a little bumped at edges). A short thriller set on the Tibetan frontier during and after the short-lived Red Chinese invasion of India in the autumn of 1962.