Gold Medal, Greenwich, Conn., 1961, k1336.  MMPB, 176 pages.  Wraps show edge and cover wear, some scratches, small corner creases; very slight lean and faint reading creases.  Small losses and tears at lower spine end.  Binding tight.  Interior clean and unmarked with tanned pages.  Second copy similar condition with prior owner's name inked at top front edge.  Will send best copy.  ‘A brutal journey into the bitter, silent world of a government assassin, where calculated killing occurs in subtle ways and strange places – and where wracking torture is a predictable rule of the game.  Matt Helm finds himself torn between the neurotic urges of a gangster’s headstrong daughter and a threat to the life of the woman to whom he himself had once been married.’ (from rear wrap)  Second copy similar in condition with prior owner's name inked at upper front edge and bit of a roll.