Used paperback in good condition. Cover showing creases, pages in good condition. Ink signature on title page. 335 pages. Published by Pan Books, 1976. ISBN 0330248332.

A dead man’s briefcase presents a down-on-his-luck pilot with the chance of a lifetime.

Pilot Douglas Grimes’s best days are long behind him. Grounded due to a medical condition, Douglas has resigned himself to menial work as a desk clerk at a seedy hotel. But his fortune flips when he discovers a hotel guest dead from a heart attack and, next to him, a tube jammed with hundred-dollar bills. Douglas grabs the money and, with it, the chance to remake his life.

In Europe, he meets Miles Fabian, an elegant and erudite con man with a flair for extravagance. Fabian recruits him for his latest ploy: robbing members of the idle rich. But what will happen when his bad behaviour catches up with him?