Book Details
Title: Barrier Reef
Author: Maxwell Grant
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: W.H.Allen
Year: 1980
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Hardcover and Dust Jacket
Pages: 249
Dimensions: L22cm xW14cm x D2.5cm
Weight: 420g
ISBN: 0 491 02800 8
Battle Scars:
Outside:
Overall good read condition. Dust Jacket is intact, with some minor shelf wear, with rubbing to edges/ends/corners. There is mild scuffing and a couple of superficial creases. There is foxing to the underside of the Dust Jacket. The hardcover underneath is of blue boards and is well preserved. The gold embossing on the spine is intact. A small amount of crushing to spine ends and bumping to corners.
Inside:
Binding is firm and intact. Front end page has top right corner removed - there is a slight pen mark which may indicate the corner was removed to remove an inscription. Pages themselves are in very good condition, clean with minimal marking/creasing or tanning.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"At the customs hall in Frankfurt the sniffer dogs showed a particular interest in a brown suitcase. But they were not on the scent of drugs, but of warm flesh; for there inside lay two birds, suffocating, their plumage crumpled and their tail feathers pulled off. They were Golden Shoulders, one of the most rare, beautiful and valuable species in the world - and all the officer could do was close the suitcase, shrug his shoulders and wave the passenger on to his connecting flight to Amsterdam.
When Barrett, a top television reporter, was sent to Cane Island to investigate the disappearance of a customs inspector, he had no idea that he would be opening a Pandora's Box of smuggling and vice operations, of personal and ruthless vendettas and an impossible love affair. Nor that he would be unmasking the villains behind the needless cruelty to these exotic birds.
As Barrett and his cameraman arrive at the provincial town of Marlin on the Barrier Reef, they are met with a wall of silence and hostility, broken only by Barrett's former girlfriend who warns them to turn back now before it's too late! But Barrett is only concerned about getting his story and survives each danger in true James Bond style.
Against a backcloth of coral reefs, wildlife and fauna, Max Grant has set a compelling and moving thriller which demonstrates the struggle between the base powers of man and his innocent victims. It is a story of love and beauty winning through against man's cruelty and carnage. A most impressive and exhilarating first novel."
Book Details
Title: Barrier Reef
Author: Maxwell Grant
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: W.H.Allen
Year: 1980
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Hardcover and Dust Jacket
Pages: 249
Dimensions: L22cm xW14cm x D2.5cm
Weight: 420g
ISBN: 0 491 02800 8
Battle Scars:
Outside:
Overall good read condition. Dust Jacket is intact, with some minor shelf wear, with rubbing to edges/ends/corners. There is mild scuffing and a couple of superficial creases. There is foxing to the underside of the Dust Jacket. The hardcover underneath is of blue boards and is well preserved. The gold embossing on the spine is intact. A small amount of crushing to spine ends and bumping to corners.
Inside:
Binding is firm and intact. Front end page has top right corner removed - there is a slight pen mark which may indicate the corner was removed to remove an inscription. Pages themselves are in very good condition, clean with minimal marking/creasing or tanning.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"At the customs hall in Frankfurt the sniffer dogs showed a particular interest in a brown suitcase. But they were not on the scent of drugs, but of warm flesh; for there inside lay two birds, suffocating, their plumage crumpled and their tail feathers pulled off. They were Golden Shoulders, one of the most rare, beautiful and valuable species in the world - and all the officer could do was close the suitcase, shrug his shoulders and wave the passenger on to his connecting flight to Amsterdam.
When Barrett, a top television reporter, was sent to Cane Island to investigate the disappearance of a customs inspector, he had no idea that he would be opening a Pandora's Box of smuggling and vice operations, of personal and ruthless vendettas and an impossible love affair. Nor that he would be unmasking the villains behind the needless cruelty to these exotic birds.
As Barrett and his cameraman arrive at the provincial town of Marlin on the Barrier Reef, they are met with a wall of silence and hostility, broken only by Barrett's former girlfriend who warns them to turn back now before it's too late! But Barrett is only concerned about getting his story and survives each danger in true James Bond style.
Against a backcloth of coral reefs, wildlife and fauna, Max Grant has set a compelling and moving thriller which demonstrates the struggle between the base powers of man and his innocent victims. It is a story of love and beauty winning through against man's cruelty and carnage. A most impressive and exhilarating first novel."
