PAPERBACK EDITION. WELL READ AND CREASES TO SPINE & COVERPAPERBACK EDITION. WELL READ AND CREASES TO SPINE & COVER.SMALL TEARS ON SPINE"Frank Pagan is a policeman in disgrace. Which is why, reduced to a sort of odd-job security man, he is escorting a not-very-important Russian official on a not-very-important trip to Edinburgh. Where his career prospects take a turn for the worse when his Russian is assassinated - shot at point-blank range - on Waverley Station." - back cover.