The English Assassin.

SILVA, Daniel [Erica Jong].

Item Number: 142905

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2002.

First edition of the author’s fifth novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Ken + Erica Thank you for the friendship and support. Book #5!! All Best Daniel Silva.” The recipients, American writer Erica Jong and lawyer Kenneth David Burrows were married in August of 1989. Erica Jong remains best known for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying which became famously controversial for its portrayal of female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. Written in the first person and narrated by its protagonist, 29-year-old American poet Isadora Wing, Fear of Flying was written in the throes of the Sexual Revolution of the 1970s and encapsulated the movement’s redefinition of female sexuality. In interviews, Jong stated: “At the time I wrote Fear of Flying, there was not a book that said women are romantic, women are intellectual, women are sexual—and brought all those things together… What [Isadora is] looking for is how to be a whole human being, a body and a mind, and that is what women were newly aware they needed in 1973.” The novel remains a feminist classic and has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Walter Harper.

Critics have compared his work to the best of John Le Carre, Frederick Forsyth, and Ken Follett. "Daniel Silva has produced, an accomplished - and, in fact, thrilling - thriller." wrote The Washington Post of The Kill Artist. Now, in his fifth novel, Silva has created his most brilliant story of all, an espionage thriller of a stunning complexity and truly seductive power. "A superbly crafted thriller" (Publishers Weekly).