Boston: Little, Brown, 1939

8vo, pp. 315, 5pp. advertisements bound in at rear. Original grey boards, lettered in red to front panel and spine. Illustrated dust jacket. Bookseller's label to rear pastedown. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket with some scuffing to front panel and a little wear to spine ends.

First US edition, preceded by the UK edition of the same year.

One of four novels Oppenheim dictated to his secretary in 1939 -- and one of one hundred and fifty he produced across his career. This one, set squarely in his preferred milieu of international intrigue, concerns an attempt by one man to overthrow the Russian government.

HUBIN, p.313