London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - Suspense novel set in post-cold war Europe. "Tim Cramner and Larry Pettifer, double agents and childhood chums, have been left with unfulfilled agendas at the end of the Cold War: Tim's is to live in elegant, self-satisfied retirement with his young lover, Emma, and Larry's is to find a better cause worth dying for. Their mutual quests for self-identity comprise the heart of this artful psychological thriller." Ribbon place marker bound in. True first edition with a number line ending in 1 (reportedly only about 1000 copies were issued, primarily for the export market and for sale in airports, before they were pulled due to Le Carre's dislike of the design of the plain gray dust jacket. 347 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-24064026x.