Canadian printing. After an injury in a crucial game a football star discovers that he is a pawn in a power struggle, and the woman to whom he has turned for refuge is trapped by a man "whose strange hold upon her was nurtured in the fury and violence of a monstrous obsession." Originally published in hardcover, in 1949, by Julian Messner, this edition "has been slightly abridged for your greater reading pleasure," which makes a fella wonder about all the tedious words that mighta been in the original edition. Cover by Earle Bergey. A bit of slant/roll, mild edgewear, ink initial on title page, light internal soil, some mustiness, crease to bottom left corner of back cover.