NO LEFT TURNS

Ballantine, New York, May 1976, 1^st pr thus.  ISBN 0-345-25013-3.  MMPB, 182 pages.  Very good; small ding at spine head and small ding at lower rear edge; tight binding; no reading creases.  Interior clean and unmarked with lightly tanned pages.  ‘Here is J. Edgar Hoover’s watchful FBI – a tight little empire where the complexities of rules, regulations and mystique leave even the deadliest of operatives cringing.  Where the Director is infallible and his every wish is a command.  Literally.  This is the way the Bureau was.  A field office in Dallas, paralyzed by an expected visit of the Director, prepares to indulge his every whim.  A Special Agent in Charge retreats to his bed.  The Director orders the removal of a “pinhead” in the new agents class.  The Clod Squad descends to condemn complacency.  Reprisals are dealt out against agents who break the cardinal rule and “embarrass the bureau.”’ (from rear wrap)