MISSION IN BLACK
New York: Random House, 1967. Book Club Edition. Cloth. 8vo, navy blue cloth with black lettering on spine, archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a man shaded half black & half white against a red and multi-colored background designed by Tom Daly, 216 pages + [1] About the Author. Fine / Near Fine. Item #7123
"The action of Mission in Black is played out on "Island Three,"...a Caribbean republic with a proud crumbling capital surrounded by damp jungles that pulse with the heat of Africa, and mountains like wild peaks.... Vivid against even this tapestry are the people--North American, European, and native--with whome Miles mjust find a way to deal, on arious levels from the operational to the sexual, in scenes that are swift, taut, sometimes flashing with humor."--jacket
Gordon Cotler (1923 - 2013), was an author, writer for television, longtime contributor to The New Yorker, and producer.
Cotler’s novels included The Bottletop Affair (1959), The Cipher (1961, as "Alex Gordon"), Mission in Black (1967), Shooting Script (1992), and Prime Candidate (1996).
The Bottletop Affair was adapted into the 1962 MGM movie “The Horizontal Lieutenant,” starring Paula Prentiss and Jim Hutton; and “The Cipher” (written as Alex Gordon) became the 1966 Universal film “Arabesque,” directed by Stanley Donen and starring Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren. He also wrote "McMillan and Wife" (1973-77), which starred Rock Hudson and Susan Saint James.
SCARCE title: Tight, bright, clean copy in a NF bright and clean dust jacket (unclipped) with traces of edgewear at the top and bottom of the dj's spine.
Price: $25.00