New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel to be published in the US - a tale of vengeance and international intrigue - "For almost half a lifetime ex-agent Richard Gardiner has buried his searing memories of treachery and torture at the hands of the Gestapo in Paris. But in the mid 1960s, back in France on holiday, he is confronted by the past." 324 pp.