New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1972) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third of five novels by this Canadian writer and professor. In discussing the continuing relevance of Buell's work to today's circumstances, author Michael Watson described this as "a gripping and harrowing account of a biker gang's murder of the wife and daughter of an honest man, John Grant, and the retribution that follows. After training himself to use a pistol and fending off a new attack by the bikers, it is Grant, not the bikers, who ends up in jail. . .. Under the twisted logic of a progressive legal system, a law-abiding man who has suffered unspeakable loss and who resorts to self-defense ends up in jail while his attackers go free. His style is an agile, nimble wonder that renders complex action and layered thoughts and emotions vividly, with never a wasted word. He captures the plight of a civilized man faced with utter barbarity and no good options, and conveys the legitimacy and necessity of fighting back against predators." Basis for the 1975 French film " L'Agression." 279 pp. ISBN: 0-374263426.