Siro (The Franklin Library Signed First Edition Society Series)

465, [7] pp. 8vo. Full turquoise leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Two-page frontispiece by Monika Kehrer. Franklin Library's Signed First Edition Society released signed, limited editions of new works that preceded the trade editions, with a special foreword and frontispiece that appear only in the limited edition. "Made restless by the tightening restrictions of CIA bureaucracy, agent Alan Taylor oversteps moral and legal bounds in a top-secret mission to destabilize the Soviet Union. His new recruit?the beautiful Anna Barnes, who struggles with complex feelings for Taylor?receives a deeper education than she signed up for in David Ignatius’s trademark world of shifting international and domestic pressures, hidden loyalties, and secret agendas."