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| Book Title | The Pigeon Project |
| Genre | Thriller |
| Author | Irving Wallace |
| Publisher | Bantam Books |
| Published | 1980 |
| Format | Mass Market Paperback |
| Condition | Good |
| Condition Notes | Vintage mass-market paperback showing moderate age, shelf, and reading wear. The cream-colored front cover has visible age toning and light surface soiling, with rubbing along the edges and corners. The upper-right corner shows a noticeable crease/curl, and there are smaller handling marks and light scratches across the cover.
The illustrated cover remains attractive, with strong blue-and-gold lettering and clear artwork. No significant front-cover tears or major paper loss are visible. Considering its age and visible wear, Good is the appropriate EugeneBookStore condition, assuming the binding remains secure and the interior is complete. |
| Condition | Good |
What if scientists discovered a way to dramatically extend human life—and the secret became valuable enough to kill for?
In Venice, an elderly scientist’s extraordinary experiments have produced results that could transform humanity’s understanding of aging. When word of the discovery begins to spread, an unlikely collection of people becomes caught in the struggle surrounding it: a glamorous actress, an Italian contessa, a resourceful priest, an American public-relations man searching for a cause, and the woman he loves.
What begins as a scientific breakthrough quickly becomes an international race for possession of a secret capable of changing the world. Irving Wallace mixes science, romance, ambition and suspense as his characters confront one of humanity’s oldest dreams—the possibility of escaping the limits of age and mortality.
EugeneBookStore Summary
The Pigeon Project is classic Irving Wallace: a big, provocative idea wrapped inside a fast-moving international thriller.
Wallace takes the universal desire for a longer life and asks what would happen if someone actually discovered a way to achieve it. The answer involves scientists, celebrities, religious figures, romance, competing ambitions and people willing to go extraordinary lengths to control the discovery.
The Italian setting and unusual scientific premise give the novel a different flavor from the typical Cold War thriller of its period. Readers who enjoy older conspiracy novels, medical thrillers and stories built around secret scientific breakthroughs should find this an entertaining example of late-1970s popular suspense.
Collector Notes
This copy is the 1980 Bantam Books mass-market paperback, ISBN 9780553133233, containing approximately 338 pages. Bibliographic records confirm the edition, and at least one bookseller identifies this particular Bantam release as the first paperback edition and first printing.
The cover is also a particularly nice example of vintage Bantam thriller artwork, combining Venice, pigeons and the principal characters beneath the oversized blue-and-gold typography.
Irving Wallace was one of the better-known American popular novelists of his generation. His fiction frequently took controversial scientific, political or social ideas and transformed them into large-scale commercial thrillers. The Pigeon Project fits neatly into that tradition.
