Horn of Africa

New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston , 1980 Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, New York. 1980. Hardcover. Stated First Edition/First Printing by Line Number. Signed by the author on the title page. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; slight soiling to head and tail; DJ: Near Fine; NOT Price Clipped ($12.95); light bumping to head and tail; light suntanning to spine and top edge. Red paper over boards with white cloth overlay on the spine; black lettering on the spine. 487 pp 8vo. When Vietnam veteran and foreign correspondent Charlie Gage is recruited by the shadowy Thomas Colfax to assist with something called Operation Atropos, he has no idea he is about to be enlisted for guerilla warfare in northeast Africa. Once he realizes he’s a mercenary, however, he is not at all concerned. Ever since his young secretary was killed by a grenade at their bureau office in Beirut a couple of years before, he has lost all volition. Which is why he so readily capitulates not only to Colfax, but also, and more dangerously so, to every command of Jeremy Nordstrand, the mystical megalomaniac determined to achieve greatness on their seemingly suicidal mission. Set in the forsaken yet exotic deserts of Ethiopia, Horn of Africa is a vividly detailed and masterfully plotted novel chronicling a broken man’s struggle for salvation and inner freedom in the midst of a broken nation’s fight for stability and peace. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.