The Hero
Language: English
Published by The New English Library Limited NEL, London, 1975
- First Edition
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, Suffolk, United KingdomRaymond Tait
AbeBooks seller since June 21, 2007
Condition: Used - Good
US$ 12.28
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First paperback edition. Previously published as a hard cover by New English Library in 1973 with both editions now fairly rare. The spine has reading creasing and edge rubbing. The front cover a little light surface and edge wear only. The rear cover has a three inch crease to the top left corner. Browning and light spotting to the page edges. Book shop stamp and a price in pen to the insides of the front cover. Light yellow spotting to the first and last few pages. The pages are also browned but otherwise unmarked. First printing.
Seller Inventory # 017594
- Title
- The Hero
- Author
- Haining, Peter
- Publisher
- The New English Library Limited NEL, London
- Publication year
- 1975
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0450023362
- ISBN 13
- 9780450023361
- Edition
- First Paperback Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Dimensions
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
Richard Soulgrove is the man chosen for the mission. Aged 31, shy, anonymous, undistinguished in any field except that he can speak Chinese. He is taken from his peaceful existence as a civil servant and thrust into a long and dangerous assignment. An assignment where he has to learn to play the Hero. To develop the capacity for killing, and to learn how to live with the shadow of constant fear and imminent death.
It could fall to any one of us to play the Hero, to learn to take the Hero’s fate.
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Raymond Tait
Beccles, Suffolk, United Kingdom
AbeBooks seller since June 21, 2007
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