Author: GARDNER, JOHN
Title: The Liquidator
Description: NY: The Viking Press, 1964. Book Club Edition. 1. Hard Cover. Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo (approx 5.5 x 8.25"). 182 pp. Bound in publisher's full blue cloth, gilt (silver and red) lettering on spine. This is a new, unopened copy. The volume is in perfect, pristine condition. The dust jacket (now in Mylar) has some scuffs on the front panel and is chipped at the head and heel of the spine. AS NEW/VERY GOOD. Author's first mystery. Basis for the 1965 Jack Cardiff film featuring Rod Taylor, Trevor Howard and Jill St. John. Gardner has written a glistening spoof qua thriller. His impressions of the life of an international agent are at once crisply exciting and bitingly funny. Boysie Oakes works for Her Majesty's Government, though not too enthusiastically, As a professional killer, amidst plenty of danger, suspense, intrigue, and a good bit of satirical humor. First novel from the man who continued the James Bond series after Fleming's death. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. As New in Very Good dust jacket .

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