Signet, Scarborough, 1980, 2nd pr.  ISBN 0-451-09481-6.  MMPB, 295 pages.  Wraps have edge and cover wear, corner and reading creases, some colour transfer on rear wrap; binding sound.  Interior clean and unmarked with tanning pages.  ‘A Chinese soldier wanders mindlessly in the snow.  An American diplomat crashes through a hotel window.  A British beauty and her lover are slain in bed.  An old Russian woman wonders where her government will want her to kill next.  The answer came soon.  The next stage in the escalation of horror was Washington, D.C.  The next target, the President.  For the Russians had perfected the ultimate instrument of death…and only a lone American named John Rayner suspected the truth, as he plunged headlong into a world of madness unleashed and terror about to triumph….’ (from rear wrap)