Stated First Edition in clean unclipped jacket. Clean black boards with clean gray cloth spine, gold lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean color illustrated endpapers. Small tasteful previous owner private library stamp on blank fly leaf. 331 pp. Clean dustjacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A spy novel set in Panama, made into a movie (2001) starring Pierce Brosnan and Jamie Curtis.