Viking, New York, 1969, Largetype.  ISBN 0-670-23209-2.  Hard cover, 309 pages.  Very good; yellow boards with green lettering on spine.  Binding sound with headbands; green top stain with small faint water marks.  Dust jacket with price intact has edge and cover wear, short edge tears and tears repaired on verso, small losses at corners and spine head; old water marks visible on verso; some marking on inside front flap.  Gift inscription on FEP; remainder of interior clean and unmarked with tanned pages.  ‘Set in Haiti, where terror rides and death comes frequently and swiftly in the night, this is a story of love and adventure, hope and disillusion. … it is also a story about the committed and uncommitted.  The Haitian, Doctor Magiot; Brown, a disenchanted part-Englishman from Monaco, a hotel owner; Smith and his wife, an American couple on a good-will mission; Martha, the young German wife of a Latin-American diplomat; Jones, an engaging fool:  all these play their parts – respectable or shady – in the foreground.  With alternating comedy, irony, and grim violence, Greene weaves these lives in a pattern of mounting suspense.’ (from front flap)