STONE, ROBERT — Dog Soldiers

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1974. Hardcover. ISBN: 0395184819. Possible book club edition, though number line on copyright page indicates a 4th printing. Two Marine Corps. veterans attempt to make a small fortune by smuggling three kilos of powerful heroin from Viet Nam to the United States. However, they are thwarted by numerous sinister actors, culminating in a violent ordeal. --- In pale green paper-covered boards backed in tan cloth with spine titling in black. Volume wrapped in simple white and orange jacket. --- With a dark smudge to front cover, a little soiling to spine, else a tightly-bound, sound copy. NOTE: The first signature is misaligned with rest of the signatures and juts out somewhat (see photo). Unclipped, unpriced jacket in excellent condition though with a little sunfading to spine; wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; [10], 342 pages. Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket .