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Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 1st ed. Near fine in dust jacket with just a slight trace of soiling. A wonderful Irish comedy of murder, mayhem and misadventure. Book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 1st US ed. Near fine in lightly soiled dust jacket. Mann's 4th book. "Gus Seaton had the ideal existence-as a college professor, he had the cushy job of running a private research center on nationalism; on television, he was a charming, witty, and highly popular commentator. His wife, Rachel, pursued her career as a singer of classical and liturgical music, wrapped in the security of a comfortable provincial life. Then things begin to fall apart. First, Gus's right to the directorship of the research center and institute is bitterly attacked by a local Irish real estate broker who launches a smear campaign asserting that Gus is involved in a Scottish nationalist terrorist group. Following hard on the heels of this absurd accusation, Rachel's "best friend,"Lorna Hallam, begins to suggest that Gus might be seeing another woman.The comfortable surface of Rachels life begins to dissolve under the tension of her own well-founded fear of violence in the service of nationalistic "idealism" and the accidental discovery of clues that there may be more than mere slander and innuendo to the charges against Gus. Her teenage daughter's gestures of rebellion add yet one more turn to the screw, as the illusions of domestic tranquillity become even more difficult to sustain. In the midst of all these concerns, she is forced to play the heroine in a desperate adventure, cast in the role by complexities of fate and conspiracy far beyond her wildest fears and imaginings. It is Rachel who ultimately confronts her own true self at that moment of deadly peril-at the sticking place." Jacket. Book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 1st American Edirion, so stated. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, $4.95 intact, in protective mylar cover. The 2nd Spider Scott title. A case of treason 'which would make Burgess, MacLean and Philby appear like schoolboys sneaking to teacher', a violent but extremely patriotic Soho gangster with an unhealthy interest in the workings of Heathrow airport and a notorious cat burglar fished out of the Thames, his feet tethered in concrete. Connecting them is Willie 'Spider' Scott, a man cursed with the 'XYY' chromosome which genetically predisposes him to a life of crime. Spider is trying to go straight, running the XYY Travel Agency, but it is his skills as a criminal rather than a travel agent which appear to be most in demand. Hounded by Special Branch and apparently abandoned by his friends in British Intelligence, Spider seems destined to be the fall-guy in a plot which involves a politically expedient assassination and a massive consignment of drugs. And it all begins with what should be the easiest job of his long criminal career, breaking in to an empty house. Spider Scott could be out of his depth; quite literally, under the surface of the Thames, wearing concrete boots. Book.