The jacket is price clipped, there is an ownership signature on the front paste down and the front end paper is discoloured along the inner edge courtesy of the front flap. A clean, unmarked and solid. First British/American edition. Second volume in the Boyars trilogy. ",....It is, all in all, an evenly interesting, cumulatively powerful portrait of an equivocal society temporizing in a losing end game of self-interest and self-preservation." (Kirkus Review)