Transparent Traitor
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: A clean, well-preserved copy with no major faults. Jacket: Original pictorial dust jacket present, price clipped. Vivid colours largely unfaded. Some creasing and light wear to the spine head and extremities; minor edge rubbing to corners. Page Condition: Text block clean and tight. Pages bright with foxing on the book block. No dampstaining or tears. Markings: Free from ownership inscriptions, bookplates, or previous owner's names on the title page. One small stain to the spine of the boards, otherwise unmarked. Binding: Original publisher's red cloth boards, Macdonald & Co. Spine and boards square and firm, no cocking or shelf lean evident. Gilt/blue-stamped title lettering to spine remains clear and legible. Binding tight with no looseness to text block.
In the shadowy world of wartime intrigue and divided loyalties, Transparent Traitor by Francis Gérard draws readers into a taut narrative where deception is the currency of survival and trust is a luxury no one can afford. Gérard, a prolific British author of espionage and adventure fiction, crafts a story steeped in the moral ambiguity of intelligence work, where the line between patriot and traitor is dangerously thin and the consequences of crossing it are absolute. Gérard's prose is crisp and purposeful, maintaining a relentless pace that keeps readers locked in suspense from the opening page to the final revelation. His mastery of the genre — honed across dozens of spy thrillers throughout the mid-20th century — is on full display as he constructs a web of characters whose true allegiances are never quite what they seem. A gripping addition to the classic British espionage canon, Transparent Traitor leaves one haunting question lingering long after the last page: in a world built on lies, who is truly transparent?
Author: Francis Gérard
Format: Hardback
Published: 1950, Macdonald & Co., (Publishers) Ltd.
Genre: Cold war & espionage
Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: A clean, well-preserved copy with no major faults. Jacket: Original pictorial dust jacket present, price clipped. Vivid colours largely unfaded. Some creasing and light wear to the spine head and extremities; minor edge rubbing to corners. Page Condition: Text block clean and tight. Pages bright with foxing on the book block. No dampstaining or tears. Markings: Free from ownership inscriptions, bookplates, or previous owner's names on the title page. One small stain to the spine of the boards, otherwise unmarked. Binding: Original publisher's red cloth boards, Macdonald & Co. Spine and boards square and firm, no cocking or shelf lean evident. Gilt/blue-stamped title lettering to spine remains clear and legible. Binding tight with no looseness to text block.
In the shadowy world of wartime intrigue and divided loyalties, Transparent Traitor by Francis Gérard draws readers into a taut narrative where deception is the currency of survival and trust is a luxury no one can afford. Gérard, a prolific British author of espionage and adventure fiction, crafts a story steeped in the moral ambiguity of intelligence work, where the line between patriot and traitor is dangerously thin and the consequences of crossing it are absolute. Gérard's prose is crisp and purposeful, maintaining a relentless pace that keeps readers locked in suspense from the opening page to the final revelation. His mastery of the genre — honed across dozens of spy thrillers throughout the mid-20th century — is on full display as he constructs a web of characters whose true allegiances are never quite what they seem. A gripping addition to the classic British espionage canon, Transparent Traitor leaves one haunting question lingering long after the last page: in a world built on lies, who is truly transparent?