The Fascinator

by Andrew York

Hutchinson, 1975, [First Edition], ISBN 009123090X, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, ex-library with stickers and stamps to back endpapers, rubbing and tear to front endpaper, stamp to publisher’s page, some foxing marks on introductory pages and some other pages; dustjacket shows a little edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing, bumping and chipping, sticker to spine, some creasing and crumpling (see photographs)

“How does a professional assassin retire? Where does he go, what does he do, how does he forget?  Jonas Wilde, code name eliminator, chooses the Mediterranean island of Ibiza, where he hopes to lose himself amidst the crowds of tourists, and lose his memories in endless bottles of wine.  But professional assassins can never retire.  Wilde is too valuable to be forgotten.  His old employers, his old enemies, and others who know of him as the most dangerous man in the world, all wish to discover if Wilde can still be put to use, however unwilling he may be to return to the field of international espionage and murder.”