At 2 pm on a Monday in 1966, Ned Balfour wakes up in Corsica beside a beautiful woman. In the same instant, back in London, jeweler and Dachau survivor Sam Weiss, Ned's best friend, falls ten stories to his death. Ned refuses to believe that Sam meant to kill himself, and his personal investigation thrusts him into a world of fraud and deceit amid the bygone rare book markets of Swinging London. First published in 1967, this thriller of vertigo, suspicion, and infidelity is an unconventional classic with an intriguing plot twist.