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London: Macmillan, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by Banks on the title page. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped (£11.95). Blue buckram with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The second first novel in Banks's Culture series.

A brilliant strategist from the Culture is drawn into a political game that could determine the fate of a civilization.