VGC.Collins,1989.First edition-first printing.Black hardback(gilt lettering to the spine,small nick on the edge of the cover) with Dj(two small nicks and crease on the edges of the Dj cover),both in VGC.Nice and clean pages with some ink marks on the outer edges,small ink mark on the edge of page 65.Nice and clean book with light shelf wear on the Dj cover.176pp.Price un-clipped. This is another paragraph Synopsis: Thriller writer Jack Higgins, the author of Night of the Fox, Confessional and The Eagle Has Landed, departs from his normal adventure novels with this unusual story, a post-war portrait of a young man's growth to maturity in the Yorkshire town of Manningham.