GETTING TO KNOW THE GENERAL The Story of an Involvement.

First edition, first printing. Original green cloth with gilt lettering to the spine, in dustwrapper. A fine copy, tight, square and without marks or inscriptions. Complete with the fine, bright and clean dustwrapper. Not price-clipped and correctly priced (£8.95 net) to the front flap. A lovely copy.

Greene's personal memoir (based on five years worth of diaries) of his friendship with General Omar Torrijos Herrera, ruler of Panama from 1968-81, and of the author's many visits to "this bizarre and beautiful little country".