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New York:: The Macmillan Company,, (1969). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in very good dust jacket (small spot on front endpaper, some sunning to the yellow background of the dj, original price of 4.50 still present,). First printing. "Grofield takes a fall but rallies for a super encore with a hassle of international no-goods and a bounteous African lady spy." The third Cock Robin thriller featuring Alan Grofield, a "card-carrying member of Actors' Equity, part-time thief and full time lover." 184 pp

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1970. [Spy thriller] FIRST BRITISH EDITION. Octavo (20x 14cm), pp.184; [8], blank. Publisher's dark grey cloth with gilt titles to spine, illustrated dust-wrapper designed by Graphics Partners. A clean, fine copy in near fine price-clipped wrapper. Adventure novel featuring the 'swinging' series character Alan Grofield. Westlake wrote two screen treatments for a James Bond film, which were unused and so developed into the novel 'Forever and a Death'.