The Pass Beyond Kashmir.
MATHER, Berkely [Ian Fleming].
The Pass Beyond Kashmir.
First Edition of Berkely Mather's The Pass Beyond Kashmir; With the Rare Original Ian Fleming Promotional Wrap-Around Band
London: Collins, 1960.
$1,500.00
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Item Number: 150651
First edition of this classical adventure novel. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. Fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with the rare original yellow Ian Fleming promotional wrap-around band.
Berkeley Mather (1906–1991) was a British novelist, playwright, and former intelligence officer whose fiction is closely associated with postwar geopolitical and espionage themes. Drawing on his experience in military intelligence and his extensive knowledge of South and Southeast Asia, Mather produced novels such as The Pass Beyond Kashmir, a fast-moving geopolitical thriller that plunges the reader into a tense world of espionage, shifting alliances, and danger along one of the most contested frontiers in South Asia. Set amid the high mountain passes near Kashmir, the novel weaves political intrigue with physical peril, using the harsh landscape to heighten the sense of risk and uncertainty as rival powers maneuver for control.
