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First edition, first impression, retaining its dust jacket, of this classic spy thriller, the author's "last book before the war. This is the most psychological of his novels and has the English hero Graham, an expert in the Turkish military who is insular, conventional and politically naive, on a boat being pursued by Nazi assassins" (Porter). It later inspired the films of 1943 and 1975. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in black. With dust jacket. Spine gently cocked, white spots to cloth, endpapers tanned, light spotting to edges. A very good copy in a rubbed and tanned jacket with chips and tear to extremities repaired with tape and paper to verso. .

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