The Leader and the Damned

First edition, first printing (true first). 478pp. In red cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine (just a little rounded at spine ends). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket (minor indentation at base of spine). The dust jacket is now protected in an archival quality mylar wrapper, fitted without use of adhesives or tape. Colin Forbes was one of the pen names of British writer, Raymond Sawkins. Sawkins also wrote under the names Harold English and Jay Bernard. Author of over 40 books, many were best-sellers at the time of their release.

Modern Fiction Firsts, crime fiction, war fiction