Used paperback in fair condition. Cover shows average wear with slight crease and front and small tear at bottom of spine. Pages with average wear and normal page discolouration. Binding showing wear between spine and flyleaf. Owner's name rubber stamped on flyleaf, title page and random other pages but doesn't affect text. Owner's signature in pen in front of book. 224 pages. Published by Houghton Mifflen, Lion Library Edition, 1954. ISBN n/a.

Tyler Spotswood, an alcoholic campaign manager, helps elect a corrupt Southern politician to the U.S. Senate. When his boss, Chuck Crawford aka “Number One,” pins a scandal on Spotswood, Tyler is too drunk to blow the whistle.