THE SPYCATCHER TRIAL.

UK,12mo p/back reprint edn.[Originally published UK,8vo HB+ dw//dj,1st edn,by William Heinemann Ltd.,1988.UK,1st p/b same publisher in 1989 and reprinted 4 times - this edn.] FINE-.No owner inscrptn,and no price removal from card cover.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy,silvered background with integrated coloured Hammer+ Sickle,UK+US flag as an elongated barrelled pistol illustration,to front cover with black lettering,a flat spine without reading creases and with black letters,rear cover with red+black lettering to story blurb; with negligible shelf-wear, bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.A small dent to front lower edge towards front lower corner.and small corner crease to rear,top corner.All edges very lightly toned but clean; contents bright,tight and clean - no intentional dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - though an accidental,uniform diagonal crease which gradually decreases in visibility,to consecutive pages (the prelims to pp18),otherwise appears unread,apart from my own collation.UK, 12mo p/back reprint,2-228pp [paginated] includes 14 chapters,8pp contemporary b/w illus and photographs in 1 block,between pp88/9, an index; plus [unpaginated] potted biog of author+newspaper critics' reviews,title page,a dedication,acknowledgements,and to the rear,4pp publisher advert+order form.
It started with MI5 seeking to muzzle an old spy. . . It ended with the British Government on trial.
In 1985 an ex-intelligence officer signed a contract for the publication of his memoirs with an Australian publisher.Mrs Thatcher (then UK Prime Minister) was having none of it,and Peter Wright,the memoirs' author,was pursued through the courts of the English-speaking world. Wright,equally tenacious,remained determined to see his book appear.
In early 1986,a brilliant young Sydney lawyer took up the Spycatcher case - and was given a one percent chance of winning.The ensuing three-week trial,the centrepiece of that young lawyer's own account of the affair,turned the Spycatcher case in favour of Wright and made his book an international bestseller.
In 'The Spycatcher Trial' Malcolm Turnbull is able to describe from the inside the fascinating conduct of a celebrated legal battle.He discusses Wright's motives in wishing to publish and those of the British Government in relentlessly seeking to stop him.And,above all,he recreates the drama of the trial that caught the world's imagination.
Ironically,as one newspaper observed 'More interesting than 'Spycatcher' (the book) itself.'
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