1968-1982 War Without Frontiers Send Him Victorious Scotch On The Rocks The Smile On The Face Of The Tiger

Description

First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

A thrilling four volume set of political fiction works by Douglas Hurd and Andrew Osmond.

With a trilogy and one further novel.

In publisher's original cloth bindings. In the original unclipped dust wrappers.

Including:

1968 Send Him Victorious
The first edition, published by Collins. A political thriller being the first in the trilogy. The novel looks ahead from the future, in a time where Queen Elizabeth II is no longer monarch of the UK and has been succeeded by a king. The former colony of Rhodesia is still defying international demands for black majority rule and is supported by apartheid era South Africa. 

1969 The Smile on the Face of the Tiger 
The first edition, published by Collins. The second novel of the trilogy. A novel about a Chinese ultimatum for the immediate cession of Hong Kong that leads to blackmail and violence, twisting from Red China to a Conservative jamboree in Cleethorpes, from a Gurkha battalion guarding the New Territories to a pheasant shoot at Chequers. The authors carry complete conviction in demonstrating that no political situation is ever purely political.

1971 Scotch on the Rocks
The first edition of the work, published by Collins. The third novel in the trilogy. A political thriller set in 1970s Scotland that envisions a political crisis in which the Scottish National Party gains power. 

1982 War Without Frontiers
The first edition, published by Hodder and Stoughton. A political thriller.