Collins, London, 1989, 1^st UK ed/pr.  ISBN 0-00-223142-5.  Hard cover, 316 pages.  Very good; black boards with gold lettering on spine; light edge and spine wear; binding sound with a slight lean.  Price-clipped dust jacket shows light edge and cover wear, light creases; sticker ghost/residue on front panel, tiny tear at top rear panel spine edge.  Interior clean and unmarked.  ‘American socialite Sarah Talbot had everything going for her:  a multi-million dollar business, a large circle of well-placed friends and a successful marriage to English aristocrat and army colonel Edward Talbot.  Talbot is killed in the Falklands Campaign leaving her with her adored stepson Eric, a student at Cambridge.  Then Eric dies in Paris of a drug overdose, and when Sarah seeks to uncover the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death she finds all official roads to justice are blocked.  … When she meets enigmatic young former SAS sergeant Sean Egan … Sean and Sarah will plumb the depths of the underworld, a world in which man’s capacity for destruction is almost beyond belief, a world in which revenge truly is ‘a season in hell’.’ (from front flap)