Seven Seats To The Moon
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: First Edition Thus
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
What begins as an ordinary man's extraordinary stroke of luck quickly spirals into a taut, suffocating nightmare in Charlotte Armstrong's Seven Seats to the Moon. Everyman protagonist J. Middleton Middly Brown finds himself in sudden possession of seven free airline tickets to the moon — a windfall that makes him the unwitting target of dangerous international forces who believe he is carrying secrets far more valuable than any flight itinerary. Armstrong masterfully grounds her suspense in the domestic and the familiar, transforming a quiet suburban existence into a pressure cooker of paranoia, as Middly's family is drawn into a web of deadly intrigue they never asked for and cannot easily escape. A titan of mid-century American suspense fiction and winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel, Armstrong brings her signature psychological precision to this 1969 thriller, crafting a narrative that operates simultaneously as a tense spy-adjacent thriller and a wry, unsentimental study of the American family under siege. Her prose is clean and deceptively simple, luring the reader into a false sense of security before tightening the screws with quiet, relentless efficiency. Seven Seats to the Moon stands as a testament to Armstrong's unparalleled ability to find menace in the mundane — leaving the reader to wonder just how safe any ordinary life truly is.
Author: Charlotte Armstrong
Format: Hardback
Published: 1969, Collins
Genre: Thriller
Edition: First Edition Thus
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
What begins as an ordinary man's extraordinary stroke of luck quickly spirals into a taut, suffocating nightmare in Charlotte Armstrong's Seven Seats to the Moon. Everyman protagonist J. Middleton Middly Brown finds himself in sudden possession of seven free airline tickets to the moon — a windfall that makes him the unwitting target of dangerous international forces who believe he is carrying secrets far more valuable than any flight itinerary. Armstrong masterfully grounds her suspense in the domestic and the familiar, transforming a quiet suburban existence into a pressure cooker of paranoia, as Middly's family is drawn into a web of deadly intrigue they never asked for and cannot easily escape. A titan of mid-century American suspense fiction and winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel, Armstrong brings her signature psychological precision to this 1969 thriller, crafting a narrative that operates simultaneously as a tense spy-adjacent thriller and a wry, unsentimental study of the American family under siege. Her prose is clean and deceptively simple, luring the reader into a false sense of security before tightening the screws with quiet, relentless efficiency. Seven Seats to the Moon stands as a testament to Armstrong's unparalleled ability to find menace in the mundane — leaving the reader to wonder just how safe any ordinary life truly is.