8vo, quarter tobacco cloth over black buckram boards, black titles, 254pp. Stated First Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (4.95) with toning to flap edges, light rubbing to rear panel, light creasing at edges. Ex-library copy with ownership markings, discreet stamping and residue marks to endpapers, library stamping to top and bottom edges of text block. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. A psychological thriller about the murderous descent of an American film script writer living in Tunisia. The thirteenth published novel by the hardboiled existential thriller and mystery writer, considered by Graham Greene to be her finest. A very good copy in mylar, rather scarce.