The jacket, now protected, is price clipped and there is a bookseller's label on the tail of the front paste down, else a clean, unmarked and solid copy. First British edition. "The sixth novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by the internationally renowned crime writing duo by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, finds Beck investigating a brutal assassination." (publisher) Translated from the Swedish by Amy and Ken Knoespel.