Softcover has light shelfwear to edges. Pages tight and clean. Spine has small creases and tilt. 405 pages. SoftCover Binding. Year: 1986. ISBN: 0345328396. The author gives us a thrilling search, from Canada to Georgetown, Paris, Leningrad, and finally to an isolated Russian village, for a missing man, a missing fortune, and the key to a tantalizing mystery half a century old.