Snake Water

by Alan Williams

Anthony Blond, 1965 [First Edition], hardcover, Mylar protected dust-jacket

Very Good Condition, minor edge dn shelf wear with a little rubbing to edges and corners, age-toning to end papers, small 'soiling' mark to bottom fore-edge; dust-jacket shows minor edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing to edges and corners, in removable Mylar sleeve (see photographs)

"Greed, murder, revenge and rumours of vast treasure are the stuff of Alan Williams' third novel.
Ben Morris, a young Welsh architect whose life in England is in ruins, escapes to South America, his wife dead, his job hone, with no friends and only enough money fr a few months.
On his first night ashore he flares up in a bar, becomes involved in a violent incident with a minor official, and within seconds finds himself an outlaw.  Fleeing inland, he meets up with Sammy Ryderbeit, a flamboyant, footloose Jew from Southern Rhodesia who draws him into a train of nightmare events during which Ben learns the answers to many mysterious questions."