Spine ends & corners of book covers have a bit of very light bumping. Black cloth covered boards have gilt lettering to the spine of the book. Text pages are clean & bright. Endpapers are a solid white color. Spine ends & corners of dust jacket have a bit of very light bumping & rubbing. There is one small semi-closed edge tear to front top edge of the dust jacket flap joint. Spine ends & corners of dust jacket have a bit of light bumping & nicking. Overall, a very good+ copy. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. "in an astonishing turnabout, Carlos Fuentes follows his most recent novel, the huge, complex, baroque, historical fantasy Terra Nostra, with what is probably the first Third World spy thriller, an action-filled, quick-paced, terse novel of intrigue as contemporary as a headline."

General Fiction Classic Fiction Carlos Fuentes Margaret Sayers Peden Thriller Suspense spies Spy novels Modern Fiction Firsts