Used paperback in good condition. Cover and pages showing normal wear. Pages with normal age discolouration. Name in ink on flyleaf. 282 pages. Published by Hamlyn Paperbacks, 1983. ISBN 0600205991.

In a nightmare, changing world only those who adapt can survive.

First there is the ‘liberal’ society, with just enough food and money, and population police to enforce birth control.

Then it is swept away. Back comes religion — plus the ancient sins of murder, fornication and cannibalism. And war ... contrived extermination exercises to act as a drainage system for this new society.

Can the pattern be broken, or must the future endlessly repeat the mistakes of the past?