Century, 1990, Hardcover, Book Condition: Good Condition, Dust Jacket Condition: Good, First Edition
464 pages, last 4 blank. Red coloured boards with silver writing on the spine. Bumping to the head and to the heel of the backstrip, lower book edges and book corners. Shelf wear to the lower book edges. Browning to the text block edge along with some marks. Browning to the internal pages. Illustrated dustwrapper, showing a young boy smoking a cigarette against a black background with silver, white and red writing to the front panel and the spine. Rubbing and slight creasing to the top and bottom dustwrapper edges. A hint of sunning to the spine. " Postwar Berlin has become Europe's heart of darkness. Crammed into cellars, camping among the ruins, its half-starved population must hustle on the black market to survive. Crime is endemic, ensnaring even the youngest in its net. Now gangs of orphaned boys roam the city, robbed of their innocence by Nazism, brutalised by war. They live by theft, by dealing in drugs and contraband. They glory in violence." -- from the front fold over blurb. Even in this violent city a crime is committed that shocks the investigating officer. All is not as it seems. This is the first UK edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. .. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Fiction -- Military ; Fiction -- Crime; ISBN: 0712634509. ISBN/EAN: 9780712634502. Inventory No: 0105047.
464 pages, last 4 blank. Red coloured boards with silver writing on the spine. Bumping to the head and to the heel of the backstrip, lower book edges and book corners. Shelf wear to the lower book edges. Browning to the text block edge along with some marks. Browning to the internal pages. Illustrated dustwrapper, showing a young boy smoking a cigarette against a black background with silver, white and red writing to the front panel and the spine. Rubbing and slight creasing to the top and bottom dustwrapper edges. A hint of sunning to the spine. " Postwar Berlin has become Europe's heart of darkness. Crammed into cellars, camping among the ruins, its half-starved population must hustle on the black market to survive. Crime is endemic, ensnaring even the youngest in its net. Now gangs of orphaned boys roam the city, robbed of their innocence by Nazism, brutalised by war. They live by theft, by dealing in drugs and contraband. They glory in violence." -- from the front fold over blurb. Even in this violent city a crime is committed that shocks the investigating officer. All is not as it seems. This is the first UK edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. .. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Fiction -- Military ; Fiction -- Crime; ISBN: 0712634509. ISBN/EAN: 9780712634502. Inventory No: 0105047.