Used paperback in good condition. Cover and pages show minimal wear. Pages showing normal age discolouration. 223 pages. Published by Corgi Books, 1971. ISBN 0552085243.

Alexander Sangster has had a bitter experience in Oran during the Algerian war, and in England his marriage has collapsed. Now  he has become a kind of T.E. Lawrence figure in the mountain country of the Sino-Indian frontier at the time of the Red Chinese invasion of India in 1962.

With four others, one a girl, he is sent on a mission to persuade peaceful tribesmen to go to war. Gun-running, religious warfare, sexual antagonism, love - all these surface as the party faces the perils of ambush, blizzard, and vicious infighting among themselves.