London: Robert Hale, 1965

8vo, pp. 189. Original green boards, lettered in black to spine. Illustrated dust jacket. A fine copy in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with just a suspicion of darkening to the (white) rear panel, and with some tape reinforcement to reverse.

First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR: 'To Colin & Jocelyne, with every good wish Richard Rayner June 1965'.

The last of the author's four thrillers published under the Rayner pseudonym between 1960 and 1963. In the 1950s he was better known as a science fiction writer who published under the name Charles Eric Maine. In real life he was David McIlwain [1921-1981], a Liverpudlian who served in the RAF during the war, and later went on to work in radio and television.

HUBIN, p. 339 (title wrongly hyphenated)