DAY OF JUDGEMENT.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG/VG.Handwritten ink,familial gift presentation inscrptnh to front free endpaper and price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,colour b/w photographic+colour pictorial artwork design by Reg Boorer,illustrated dw/dj with black capitalised lettering within a yellow panel to front,similar lettering to a bright yellow spine/backstrip and a critic's black lettered review to b/w illustrated rear panel respectively;and all with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners – no major nicks,tears or splits present.Both head+foot of spine/backstrip minimsculely bumped with reciprocal creasing and both top corner tips of dw/dj with miniscule rubbing and reciprocal colour paper loss - other corners unaffected.Some inevitable but minimal scoring/indents to either panel of dw/dj,but without penetration to boards beneath.Top edges with minimal foxing/ spotting,fore-edges with light thumbing and other sporadic but faint foxing/spotting: contents though,are exceptionally bright,tight,clean, solid and sound – pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original,plain black cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked gilt lettering to spine/backstrip and immaculate/clean plain white sets of endpapers - familial inscrptn excepted.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,9-224pp [paginated] includes 16 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a JFK epigraph with a dedication to its verso,and a 'Berlin 1963' titled separator page with b/w map+small inset map (Neustadt Village GDR,1963) to its verso.
Visually the exterior appearance ismore than acceptable for a book of it's age,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It is only the exterior faults described that prevent a slightly higher grading.
The Vatican wanted to save him.President Kennedy,about to visit West berlin in 1963,wanted to save him.The girl who had betrayed him to the East Germans,herself the daughter of a traitor,wanted to save him.So did one of the heads of West German Intelligence,and his former opponent on the British side.What man could motivate the same urge for so many different reasons, political and personal? Only someone extraordinary.
The extraordinary man was Father Sean Conlin,a frail,stubborn,old Irishman, staunch opponent of Communism,who for years had smuggled refugees to the West.Now the East Germans had him in an impregnable fortress fifty miles inside the border,and they were intent on making him recant publicly in time to ruin Kennedy's goodwill visit.
Arrayed against him was the world's leading specialist in 'thought reform', alias brainwashing: Harry van Buren,once American,now anti all things American,whose victimes always ended by agreeing with him - if they lived.Would Conlin? Or would the strangely assorted team intent on his rescue get through to him in time?
It included six Lutheran monks and an American Jesuit; an ex-Luftwaffe ace and an English major with the unenviable nickname of 'The Beast of Selangor'; a Jewish undertaker and the ex-SS caretaker of the prison fortress.Not all of them would survive.
Who lived,who died,who talked and who kept silent,make a story of racking suspense,in which international events and personal crises are fused by Jack Higgins into a spellbinding whole.
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