Night of Masks by Andre Norton
Hardback
Published by Victor Gollancz
Date of printing 1965
CONDITION - VG
GRADING NOTES - Ex-library edition - various Liverpool Library stamps. Plastic dust jacket has been fitted but has come away on back cover. Library card holder on inside front cover. Library record sheet has been removed from first page and price has been pencilled on. Light wear to all edges. Slight spine roll. Some spotting to top edge of pages
ISSUE NOTES - To Nik Kolherne no price seemed to high to pay for cosmetic surgery on his hideously disfigured face - a deformity that otherwise would keep him forever in the Dipple, a sordid settlement for those dispossessed in interplanetary wars
All he was asked to do was lure a small boy, Vandy, from the high security villa where his warlord father had hidden him and hold him until he revealed information the Thieves Guild wanted
The plan went smoothly, and Nik and Vandy were shipped off to Dis, a burned-out planet inhabited only by outlaws. But once there, Nik found that he and Vandy were prisoners and Vandy's life was threatened. In their nightmare flight to escape during which Nik was driven almost to the edge of sanity, he came to realise that a man's worth is determined by his actions, not his face