New York: Simon & Schuster, (1978) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's second book, featuring Dr. Robert Fredrickson, the dwarf detective and professor of criminology known as Mongo, in which he becomes involved in a tangled game of international politics, centering on SAVAK, the pre-revolution Iranian secret police. INSCRIBED on the title page to the late Oklahoma collector Larry Owens and on the page opposite the title page Chesbro has added an additional note that this was the first Mongo novel he wrote, but the second to be published after the "modest success" of Shadow... 236 pp. ISBN: 0-67124003X.