Publication: Faber & Faber, 1973, London
First edition. Signed. Author's first book in this series. Fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends and the extremities. Pseudonym of Reginald Hill. Only two books were written in this series, both were science fiction stories. In Matthew Matlock's Enland the population explosion has been controlled ... it is dealt with on Budget Day when the national Expectation of Life is regulated according to what the economy can bear. Matlock introduced the system and now, forty years later, he's fighting desperately against it. Scarce.
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