Bantam, New York, 1981, 7^th pr.  ISBN 0-553-20860-8.  MMPB, 339 pages.  Very good; light edge and cover wear, reading creases, light lower front corner crease, upper rear corner crease; some age toning.  Binding tight; small ink doodle on last ad page, remainder of interior clean and unmarked with tanned pages.  ‘They were seven men – crack special service operatives.  They were to have no military support, no radio contact, nothing to rely on but their expertise in small arms and explosives.  There was to be no capture, no surrender.  Alone in the steamy jungles of Laos and Vietnam, they knew that once in China they were on their own.  There would be no rescue operation …  If it’s fiction it’s unbelievably harrowing.  If it’s fact, it’s incredibly terrifying.’ (from rear wrap)