Coronet, London, 1974, 1st pr thus.  ISBN 0-340-17404-8.  MMPB, 415 pages.  Wraps show some edge and cover wear, creases and reading creases, some age toning; binding sound.  Interior clean and unmarked with tanned pages; old splash mark in fore-edge margin of last few pages.  ‘Farquharson … a happy, married, thirty-seven-year-old, a lazy athlete, an unimpressive scholar, but, given the chance, a good teacher.  With his trim, workable wife and two-year-old son he went to Nigeria in 1965 to teach at Ibadan University.  Sounds mundane?  It was – until Farquharson reached the Dark Continent.  There he found himself changing from a diffident, incompetent husband into a skilfully sensual lover, from a mild, contented family man into a violent murderer …’ (from rear wrap)