Puppet on a Chain - Alistair MacLean -1st edition 1969

Published in London: Collins, 1969.  FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.255 [1]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Norman Weaver

Condition:Very Good. Contents clean, no inscriptions. Spine faded at top end but otherwise book in very good condition. Dust jacket has some spots and tears as seen in images.

From the acclaimed master of action and suspense. The all time classic. Paul Sherman of Interpol's Narcotics Bureau flies to Amsterdam on the trail of a dope king. With enormous skill the atmosphere is built Amsterdam with its canals and high houses; stolid police; psychopaths; women in distress and above all  murder.