A lot of spine wear Cover intact, but wear along inside spine First two pages are coming loose, but all pages are intact Covers the book More inner spine wear around page 40 Pocket Books, 1965, 231 pages He was an American bumming the face of Europe. Then, in a gas station, a man offered him a hitch to Düsseldorf. But before they got there two things happened. First, on learning that he was headed for England, the man offered him a ridiculously large sum of money to deliver the wrist watch that he was wearing to his brother in London. Secondly, as they passed an ordinary workman standing beside a pile of innocent pipe, a roaring flame shot out across the road and engulfed them. The driver was killed instantly. Why? What could there possibly be about an ordinary wrist watch that could make it so important? Before he found out, he was almost murdered in London; experienced a nightmarish adventure in a macabre German night club; and, in a tiny Bavarian mountain village, stumbled upon a secret that might have plunged the world into another war.