New York: Simon & Schuster, (1969) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first crime novel, and the first in the series featuring Mikael Josef Petros. Petros was awaiting death by hanging in a Central European death cell - and then he was offered a way out. He could buy his freedom by assassinating the President of the neighbouring state. To ensure his good faith. he was injected with a fatal drug that would kill him inside four months, unless he could prove that he had completed his mission and returned for the antidote. An Inner Sanctum mystery. 219 pp. ISBN: 0-671207741.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller set at the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 404 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-22016.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller set at the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936. SIGNED on the title page. 404 pp. ISBN: 0-340-734531.

New York & Sutton, Surrey, UK: Severn House., (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The tenth in the series featuring master chef, Auguste Didier, distant cousin by marriage to King Edward VII. Set in an Edwardian England of old manor houses and villages still owing fealty to the lord of the manor, but also a world of international intrigue in the years before the Great War erupted. SIGNED on the title page. 282 pp. ISBN: 0-7278-54151.

New York: Overlook Press, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - California author's eleventh novel, one which combines gritty noir suspense with science fiction - "In the parallel near-future, a ship sinks into the Caribbean with its captain chained to the mast. Left behind is a logbook missing ten pages, presidential DNA hidden in a brick of smuggled cocaine, and a nearly- completed novel. Tipsy, the dead sailor's sister, and Red Means, his erstwhile employer, travel from San Francisco to the Caribbean and back as they attempt to unravel a mystery that rapidly widens from death at sea to international conspiracy." 448 pp. ISBN: 978-1590201947.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1963) dj. Hardcover first edition - Rather uncommon novel of international espionage, which starts with a Russian agent being interrogated by the CIA. The author is best known for his book "Red Alert" published under a different pseudonym (Peter Bryant) which became the basis for Kubrick's film Dr Strangelove. 189 pp.

New York: Putnam, (1970) dj. Hardcover first edition - Suspense adventure novel featuring an Azeri-Turk who is by profession a knife-thrower, who, hoping to earn enough money to buy a piece of land in his native Turkey, accepts what seems to be a lucrative job in a nightclub in Beirut. 217pp.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1979) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's fifth novel, this is "the story of an elite cartel of international conspirators" and their attempt to take over the world through infiltration of computer data and nuclear blackmail. 304 pp. ISBN: 0-684163802.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1979) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's fifth novel, this is "the story of an elite cartel of international conspirators" and their attempt to take over the world through infiltration of computer data and nuclear blackmail. 304 pp. ISBN: 0-684163802.