The Dogs of War

New York: The Viking Press. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1974. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0670277533 . This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book is mostly clean and bright. There is some beginning fading to the very edges of the spine ends. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a rectangular shadow of a previous owner's bookplate (professionally removed) on the black front endpaper. The dust jacket has several edge tears, nicks and very small chips missing (mostly to the top spine end). "Forsyth decided to write a novel using similar research techniques to those used in journalism. His first full-length novel, The Day of the Jackal, was published in 1971. It became an international bestseller and gained its author the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel. In this book, the Organisation Armée Secrète hires an assassin to kill then–French President Charles de Gaulle. It was made into a film of the same name. In Forsyth's second full-length novel, The Odessa File (1972) , a reporter attempts to track down an ex-Nazi SS officer in contemporary Germany. The reporter discovers him via the diary of a Jewish Holocaust survivor who committed suicide earlier, but he is being shielded by an organization that protects ex-Nazis, called ODESSA." (from Wikipedia) .