Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's second novel, set in Detroit between 1938-1943 against the background of the Nazi advance across Europe. The story of a labor organizer whose life is first threatened, and then he is murdered. Inspired by the life of Isaac Litwak, his father, a union leader. Boldly INSCRIBED on the front endpaper to "Ann and Abe... friends of my Dad and Ma." An uncommon signature. Cover praise from Herbert Gold and others. 312 pp.