Notes
First published by Faber and Faber in 1967.

Publisher’s Blurb – Lower Cover
He roamed through the dim reaches of the remote past and like a phantom, the Dark Woman haunted him at every turn. Was she a hallucination produced by the stresses of his bizarre existence? Or was she a ghost from a future more distant than his own?

Bush had been called into a totalitarian world, trained to kill, and then sent back in time – as an assassin. And still the Dark Woman pursued him, posing new questions, new possibilities, new terrors . . .

"Well written, evocative and disturbing . . . Aldiss is a magician"
-Sunday Times

"Excellent . . . ingenious and shocking"
- Sunday Telegraph