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London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1945. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by Eric Ambler to film director Roy Ward Baker, dated August 16, 1946. Ambler was Baker's superior in the British army at the time, shortly thereafter penning the screenplay for his first feature, The October Man. They would collaborate in 1958 on the Titanic thriller A Night to Remember, Baker's best-known film. Second edition, early printing. 224 pp. Very Good in a Very Good jacket with a chipped head, sunned spine panel, some rubbing and edge wear. Pages toned with age, cloth a bit grubby and spine-sunned. A nice association between the espionage novelist and an accomplished director.

This thrilling story is set during World War II and centers around an engineer's attempts to evade assassination while returning to England.