Souvenir, London, 1985, 1^st UK ed.  ISBN 0-285-62702-3.  Hard cover, 235 pages.  Very good; black boards with silver lettering on spine; binding sound with a very slight lean; spine ends lightly bumped.  Dust jacket with price intact shows some edge and cover wear, some sunning/age toning; score on front panel that did not penetrate all the way through.  Book interior clean and unmarked with tanned pages.  ‘… takes us back into the days of The Network, when Willie Garvin, raw and untried, performed an apparently impossible rescue feat and so won entry to Modesty’s elite band.  Nine years later, when the present story begins, that early exploit is to rebound on both Modesty and Willie and make them the target of the terrible Hostel of Righteousness, a supposedly religious sect run by the sadistical maniac, Dr. Thaddeus Pilgrim.’ (from front flap)