All My Sins Remembered by Joe Haldeman [1977 HARDCOVER]

All My Sins Remembered by Joe Haldeman

FIRST BOOK CLUB EDITION [1977] ST. MARTIN'S PRESS

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition. 

Mild wear and tear to edges of dust jacket; tiny sticker on spine.  Actual book is excellent; clean leatherette boards.  Reads good as new. 

In this powerful, provocative SF classic from the award-winning author of The Forever War, a young man of peace is transformed into an intergalactic killer. 

Once Otto McGavin was a kind and gentle soul; then he was recruited by the all-powerful Confederación.   An ultrasecretive, government-linked organization, the Confederación’s stated mission of protecting threatened life, both human and alien, throughout the galaxy greatly appeals to the Anglo-Buddhist McGavin as he eagerly prepares to embark on a career of diplomacy and selfless works. But Otto’s new masters have other plans for the idealistic young recruit. Through a process of immersion therapy and hypnosis, and by encasing him in temporary bodies of plastiflesh, scientists can overlay Otto’s true persona with other ones, transforming him completely—body, mind, and soul—into the ruthlessly effective prime operator the Confederación wants him to be. But decades of interstellar subterfuge and violence, and years spent wearing the personae of spies and cold-blooded killers, must ultimately take their toll—and before he leaves behind the lives that have been cruelly thrust upon him, Otto McGavin will have to somehow come to terms with who he really is and the monstrous things he has done.   One of the most powerful and thought-provoking stories from the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of Worlds and The Forever War, Joe Haldeman’s All My Sins Remembered is a stunning work of speculative fiction.