Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st US, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. British barrister and district coroner Julian Whyte finds his peaceful, uneventful life jeopardized by the return of his older brother, Raymond, an expatriate communist intellectual, and his new German wife, Kristina, in a suspenseful tale of brotherhood, guilt, betrayal, and death. Clean copy.