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First Edition with dust jacket illustration by Norman Weaver. 317 p. Price-clipped dust jacket shows minor shelfwear, considering its age, with a small (1 cm) tear to bottom of rear and a sticker stain. Hardcover with gilt lettering to spine is slightly bumped at top corners of and at heel of spine, otherwise Fine. From DJ flap: Sir Robert Hellier, millionaire film tycoon, was too busy making money to realize that his only daughter had become a drug addict until he learned she had died from an overdose of heroin. Now Sir Robert wanted action; he wanted blood. Not the blood of the sleazy drug-pushers who had supplied his daughter, but the blood of the big-time international suppliers of the market in Europe and the States. And Sir Robert was prepared to stake a large part of his personal fortune to cut heroin off at source. Enlisting the help of Dr Nicholas Warren, London drug specialist who knew as much about the problem as any police force, Sir Robert prevailed upon him to select a seemingly… Read More