The Wild Abyss
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
A pistol on the title page signals the mood: cool, dangerous, and unrelenting. The Wild Abyss by John Gunn is a taut British crime thriller that plunges its characters — and its reader — into a shadowy underworld where morality dissolves and survival demands ruthlessness. Set against a backdrop of post-war urban tension, the novel chronicles a web of deception, violence, and desperate men whose choices push them to the very edge of ruin. Published by the venerable Robert Hale & Company — a London imprint long associated with quality British crime and adventure fiction — this novel bears the hallmarks of the mid-twentieth-century thriller: lean, muscular prose, a plot that never relents, and an atmosphere thick with menace. Gunn constructs his narrative with the precision of a craftsman, drawing readers into a world where every alliance is fragile and every motive suspect. The Wild Abyss is a reminder that the most treacherous abysses are not geographical — they are human.
Author: John Gunn
Format: Hardback
Published: 1972, Robert Hale & Company
Genre: Crime fiction
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
A pistol on the title page signals the mood: cool, dangerous, and unrelenting. The Wild Abyss by John Gunn is a taut British crime thriller that plunges its characters — and its reader — into a shadowy underworld where morality dissolves and survival demands ruthlessness. Set against a backdrop of post-war urban tension, the novel chronicles a web of deception, violence, and desperate men whose choices push them to the very edge of ruin. Published by the venerable Robert Hale & Company — a London imprint long associated with quality British crime and adventure fiction — this novel bears the hallmarks of the mid-twentieth-century thriller: lean, muscular prose, a plot that never relents, and an atmosphere thick with menace. Gunn constructs his narrative with the precision of a craftsman, drawing readers into a world where every alliance is fragile and every motive suspect. The Wild Abyss is a reminder that the most treacherous abysses are not geographical — they are human.