Originally published in the U.K. and U.S. in hardback by Abelard-Schuman as "The Year of the Tiger" in 1963. This Italian edition is number 136 in the (then) weekly "Segretissimo" series published by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore on 7 July 1966. Martin Fallon is a pseudonym of Henry Patterson, best known for another of his pseudonyms - Jack Higgins. Cover art by Carlo Jacono.