Counterstroke

A 6mm tear at head of dust-jacket spine. Fading to red panel on dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 182 pages. Red boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 196 x 129mm. Crime fiction. "Life hadn't held muich except the bottle for Robert Farrain in the months since his beloved wife had died. Though a once-celebrated actor and impersonator, he didn't even have a career any more. Then terrorists kidnapped the young wife of a politican and demanded as ransom the release of one of their number serving a life sentence for killing a security guard." - from dust-jacket blurb. "Andrew Garve is the pen name of Paul Winterton. He was born in Leicester and educated at the Hulme Grammar School, Manchester and Purley County School, Surrey, after which he took a degree in Economics at London University. He was on the staff of the 'Economist' for four years, and then worked for fourteen yeas for the London 'News Chronicle' as reporter, leader writer and foreign correspondwen. He was assigned to Moscow from 1942/5, where he was also the correspondent of the BBC's Overseas Service. After the war he turned to full-time writing of detective and adventure novels and to date has produced more than thirty books. [. . .] Andrew Garve was a founder member and first joint secretary of the Crime Writers' Association." - from author biography on dust-jacket.…