The Last Frontier

by Alistair Maclean

Collins, 1959, [First Edition], hardcover, dust-jacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing to edges and corners, top fore-edge and edges a little dusty, dust-jacket shows edge and shelf wear with rubbing, chipping, small tears and creasing to edges and corners, with minor repairs (see photographs)

"Doctor Jennings, a voted scientist in possession of a precious secret, had gone over to the Soviet Union: it was Michael Reynolds' mission to get him back.  Jennings' visit to a scientific congress in Budapest, coinciding with the grave illness of his wife in London, gives Reynolds a unique opportunity: a chance to contact Jennings and offer him a motive to return.  To penetrate behind the Iron Curtain and reach his quarry, with the almost omniscient and totally unscrupulous Hungarian Secret Police on the alert, was difficult enough; to bring out with him a man uncertain, elderly and too well-known would have been impossible had not Reynolds discovered, within that terrifying organisation, men ready and able to help."