The Pushbutton Butterfly

Platt, Kin

ISBN 10: 0709119690 / ISBN 13: 9780709119692

Published by Robert Hale & Company, London, United Kingdom, 1971

About this Item

The very first case in the 7-book series featuring detective Max Roper. 204 pages Orig. published in 1970, this is the First British Edition, First Printing, from 1971, with brown cloth-covered boards lettered in bright silver to spine. Condition is Near Fine: just slightly less crisp than Brand New! Completely clean, binding strong & straight, pages off-white with mild tanning, but unmarked. Corners crisp. The unclipped DJ is VG, with mild rubbing to extremities & tiny chips at corners & spine tips; nicely protected in new clear mylar cover free! Our photos depict the EXACT book you will receive from us--never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Pushbutton Butterfly
• Publisher: Robert Hale & Company, London, United Kingdom
• Publication Date: 1971
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0709119690
• ISBN 13: 9780709119692
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First British Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mystery-Thriller-Suspense-Horror

About this title

Synopsis

Max Roper is one of the new-fangled breed who includes murder in his arsenal of security activities. In The Pushbutton Butterfly, he has to track a missing girl through a myriad of fascinating, violent, and potentially evil people, including an idealistic student rebel at Berkeley; the most fashionable of gurus; young coeds who augment their income by pushing heroin; a motorcycle gang leader who is flying high all the time; and a staid, liberal pillar of the Establishment who secretly collects pornographic pictures.Roper is a compelling man who carries his own standards of behavior into every society he encounters. He fits best with the local police who are his friends, with an aspiring Mr. America, whom he can throw with karate, indeed with all types of evildoers and guardians against evildoers. He’s an adaptable fellow, though, and manages to get on well—when he has to—with millionaires and murderers of all classes.The Pushbutton Butterfly begins when Max Roper’s boss, head of an organization called EPT, sends him out to investigate the report of a missing girl, a security project. EPT, an offshoot of a wartime operation, occasionally does top, top secret jobs for the CIA and other legal espionage groups. In this case, the girl’s father is manufacturing some highly important electronic gadgets, and there’s some danger that pressure could be exerted o him through his daughter to release secret formulas. The father, who is understandably inimical to Roper’s presence in the case, gives grudging cooperation. The girl is a student at Berkeley, and there Max goes to learn what he can from her friends. He finds one of them almost immediately, an attractive girl whose charms are not improved the condition in which Max finds her, which is very dead.From this opening, there is no letdown to the pace and excitement of The Pushbutton Butterfly, Max Roper’s first case, a provocative introduction.