Sydney, Australia: Bantam, (2002). SIGNED first edition - The uncommon true first edition of this complex international thriller, a stand-alone novel by this award-winning Australian crime fiction writer. "John Anselm is a former Beirut hostage, a war correspondent who went to one war too many. A burnt-out case, he lives in Hamburg, working for a semi-legal, near broke surveillance firm and trying to come to terms with his past. Then into his life comes Con Niemand, an ex-mercenary and professional survivor. Niemand has stumbled across evidence of a terrible secret and now he's one the run, the focus of a relentless high-tech manhunt across England to the remote Welsh mountains. Against his will, Anselm is plunged into a world of violence, betrayal and death." Boldly SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 444 pp. ISBN: 1-863252282.