256 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter red cloth with silver lettering to spine over yellow boards in original pictorial jacket. First American edition.

The third adventure in the classic Cody series of espionage thrillers.

Ex-spy Cody is hired to find a pilot who disappeared with his plane somewhere in North Africa. Her search pits her against Skorpion, a terrorist group plotting to establish radical Islamist caliphates across the Arab world, a discovery that forces her into a brutal, agonizing death-march for survival across Tunisia's scorching, desert hell-scape.

Condition: Remainder mark to heal end pages, corners bumped. Jacket spine sunned else very good in like jacket.

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Bookseller: The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: L1392
Title: Skorpion's Death: A Cody Novel
Author: David Brierley (1936- )
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0671477552
ISBN 13: 9780671477554
Publisher: Summit Books
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1985
Pages: 256 pages
Size: Octavo
Keywords: Mystery, Espionage. Detective and Thriller
Bookseller catalogs: Literature;

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