Author: MURPHY, CHRISTOPHER
Title: Jericho Rumble
Description: London: Secker & Warburg, 1982. 1st UK. Hardcover. ISBN: 0436296861. Light wear to book and dustjacket, yellowing of pages comon to British publications of this era ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 224 pages; "In the mid-'70s,Robert Halliday, ex-Special Forces for Her Majesty's Government, occasional mercenary and freelance journalist, is hired by Jessica Tovey to help spring her father from the jail of a tin-pot African dictator. Jawota Garube is the capricious, often-brutal and semiliterate leader of Ghat, a neighbor of Idi Amin's Uganda. After being menaced by mysterious Africans in England and France, the independent and resourceful Halliday hits on an ingenious scheme. He assembles a machine that transmits low-frequency "infra-sounds" that can cause effects from nausea to highly localized earthquakes. How Halliday uses this physiological compulsion on Garube forms the violent climax of the book. The plot is clever and the action fast and usually bloody. ". Very Good with no dust jacket .

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