March the Ninth

Book Club edition.  350pp.  Red cloth-covered boards, gilt-stamped lettering on the spine.  8vo.  Cloth is a little pushed at spine ends, slightly brushed.  Spotting and toning on text block edges.  Mild toning to pages.  In its original illustrated dust wrapper, rubbed and bumped at edges with a couple of short nicks from edges.  Visible shelf wear on verso and a little less than crisp and bright.  Dust jacket in a protective, removable clear film sleeve. In March the Ninth. R C Hutchinson explores the problem of loyalty and guilt, and how far those emotions can be taken before they become inadmissible or even someone else's responsibility.  Through the lens of Eugen Reichenback, the novel explores the paradoxes of human emotions: Reichenbach at first takes small steps from his ordered and respectable life as a naturalised American with the World Universities Relief Organisation in Trieste but when his war time friend challenges him, he steps further into a world of darkness and under cover operations supporting seriously wounded but otherwise despicable people.