By the Rivers of Babylon

New York/London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Fine in Near Fine dj. (c.1978). First Edition. Hardcover. 0151152780 . [lovely copy, tight, clean and apparently unread; jacket shows just a trace of wrinkling along the top edge, one tiny spot on spine, minor soiling at edge of rear panel]. The author's first hardcover book, a thriller about a group of Israelis whose two planes, en route to a peace mission at the U.N., are forced to crash-land, and who must then defend themselves against an army of Palestinian commandos, as the Israeli authorities desperately try to organize a rescue mission. .