33957X1 First Edition (Unstated. William Heinemann Ltd, London: 1956. 297 pages. Hardcover, no dustjacket. Good condition. "A number of substances that are trapped in the earth's crust will influence a Geiger counter sufficiently to set it clicking, and one of the feeblest of these influences is oil imprisoned in a salt dome or an anticline. Stanton Laird sat in an office of the Topeka Exploration Company Inc., on the eighteenth floor of the Topex Building in Cedar Street in downtown New York City, and explained his work again to Sam Johnson." And so begins this novel. $17.95USD
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