copyright 1975; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich publishers, New York; hardbound; Book Club Edition; very good condition with unmarked pages; dust jacket very good with minimal ageing.
 
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Sinister rumors link clandestine Arab arms dealing with the man who led the old anti-Nazi Guernica network. It's time to re-open the master file on yesterday's spy... 
 
"I looked at him for a long time. ‘The days of the entrepreneur are over, Steve,’ I told him. ‘Now it’s the organisation man that gets the Christmas bonus and the mileage allowance. People like you are just called “heroes”, and don’t mistake it for a compliment. It just means has-beens, who’d rather have a hunch than a computer output. You are yesterday’s spy, Steve." (p.49)