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NY: Putnam Publishing Group, The, 1998. 1st ed. Fine unread copy in dust jacket. SIGNED COPY. Signed by the author at title page. Author's first book. .A former Air Force major offers a military thriller involving a colonel whose investigation into the brutal murder of a general reveals a conspiracy stemming from the Vietnam War and presents him with a serious moral dilemma. 376 pages.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.: Dennis McMillan, 2004. 1st edition, January 2004, so stated. Fine, unread copy in dust jacket and slipcase as issued. , SIGNED and numbered by George P. Pelecanos on a special publisher's tipped in limitation page. LIMITED EDITION, This is one of 300 numbered copies (this being #160). Bound in Brillianta cloth with black endpapers with gold embossed initials. A BARRY AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST NOVEL. A prequel to the two Derek Strange novels illuminates his early life as a black cop in Washington in 1968. It's the spring of 1968, the sun shines down on an America on the brink of civil war. Martin Luther King preaches in vain for non-violent protest and the ghettos of Washington DC seethe with anger. In the middle of this powder-keg is thrust a young black cop, barely out of school himself. Derek Strange believes passionately that he can make a difference, but his friends and family think he's a traitor and a patsy of the white establishment. On April 4th, 1968, Dr… Leer más

Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.: Dennis McMillan, 2004. 1st edition, January 2004, so stated. LIMITED / LETTERED EDITION. Fine, unread copy still in shrink-wrap, in fine dust jacket and slipcase as issued. SIGNED and lettered by George P. Pelecanos on a special publisher's tipped in limitation page. ONE of 104 LETTERED COPIES. [this is copy S]. (Dennis placed a sticky label on the shrink-wrap to distiguish which copy it was). Bound in calfskin quarter-morocco with handmade paper-covered boards. A BARRY AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST NOVEL. A prequel to the two Derek Strange novels illuminates his early life as a black cop in Washington in 1968. It's the spring of 1968, the sun shines down on an America on the brink of civil war. Martin Luther King preaches in vain for non-violent protest and the ghettos of Washington DC seethe with anger. In the middle of this powder-keg is thrust a young black cop, barely out of school himself. Derek Strange believes passionately that he can make a difference, but his… Leer más

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Co, 2002. 3rd ed. Fine in dust jacket. A highly regarded novel as it gathered four different Award Nominations-- An ANTHONY, BARRY, DILYS and SHAMUS. Derek Strange and Terry Quinn, the team of investigators who made their bestselling debut in "Right As Rain," are hired to find a fourteen-year-old girl who's run away from her home in the suburbs. It's easy for Strange and Quinn to learn that the girl is now working as a prostitute in one of D.C.'s most brutal neighborhoods. Getting her to leave is harder. The two ex-cops think they know this world -- but nothing in their experience has prepared them for the vengeance of Worldwide Wilson, the ruthless operator whose territory they are intruding upon.. Later Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.: Dennis McMillan, 2001. 1st ed. , First Printing, Fine as New hardcover in dust jacket still in publisher's shrinkwrap, enclosed within a Fine as New slipcase, SIGNED & NUMBERED. One of 350 Brillianta Cloth LIMITED EDITION (this being #200). Precedes the trade edition by two months. Another great book from both George P. Pelecanos and Dennis McMillan Publications. The new thriller featuring Washington D.C. private detective Derek Strange and Terry Quinn. Dustjacket and interior artwork by Michael Kelner. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover in Slipcase. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Michael Kelner. Limited/ Numbered Edition.

NY. NY: HarperCollins, 2000. 1st. Ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover.. A BARRY AWARD NOMINEE. A solid courtroom scene shown by a brilliant writer who cleverlly takes us through the backstreets of politics in our national capitol.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Viking, 1992. 1st ed., with full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. 522 pages. In the affluent suburbs of Washington, D.C., a killer strikes, leaving a mother and her two young daughters dead in their home. Nearby, a young boy digging in the ruins of an abandoned bowling alley finds the skeletal remains of a girl dead for many years. The discovery places Elmer Janson and his mother directly in the path of a vicious serial killer. That the two cases may be linked is the problem of federal agent Jack Scott, commander of ViCAT, the Violent Criminal Apprehension Team. Scott and his intriguing group of experts lead the reader into a stunning world of criminal pursuit where high tech computers analyze micro-behaviors, criminal profiles, and forensic patterns. Van Arman, who has actually helped develop techniques used by federal agencies to catch recreational or serial killers, provides a rare and powerful look into the realm of… Leer más

N.Y.: Avon Books, 2000. 1st Edition, July 2000 with complete number line beginning with 1. Slight spine slant else a near fine copy of this Paperback Original. ANTHONY AWARD NOMINEE. "No-nonsense Washington, D.C., cop Leigh Ann Warren, out on disability because of an injured knee, returns home to find a dead body in her apartment. Clues link the corpse to Leigh's ex-fiance, Det. Dillon Upshur Kennedy, affectionately called Duck. His partner, Eddie Grimes, informs Leigh that Duck (who has turned in his badge and disappeared) swiped some drugs and a mysterious piggy bank, found when a notorious drug dealer was killed in a car accident, and that she has four days before he's reported to Internal Affairs. Leigh's search leads her to Sanctuary, a tiny artists' community in western Maryland, where she finds that the locals are less than anxious to answer her questions. West (Sunrise) has a knack for creating colorful yet realistic characters and witty dialogue. " --… Leer más

Boston: MA: Little Brown and Company, 1997. 1st ed., with full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY. "A fictional homage to the blaxploitation films of the 1970s? Well, yes, but hard-boiled master Pelecanos' latest is much more. Combining the eccentric flash of Pulp Fiction, the noir soul of David Goodis, and the idiosyncratic heart of Elmore Leonard, this wildly violent crime novel effectively evokes the comic-book heroics of the Superfly era while at the same time sucker punching us with the humanity at its core. The story takes place during the Bicentennial celebration in Washington, D.C., and has as its linchpin that familiar crime-plot device: the drug deal gone bad. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Vietnam vet and record-store owner Marcus Clay and his friend, small-time dealer Dimitri Karras, find themselves in possession of a large sum of cash belonging to a movie-loving, psychopathic ex-con and a… Leer más

Boston: MA: Little Brown and Company, 1997. 1st ed., with full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. "A fictional homage to the blaxploitation films of the 1970s? Well, yes, but hard-boiled master Pelecanos' latest is much more. Combining the eccentric flash of Pulp Fiction, the noir soul of David Goodis, and the idiosyncratic heart of Elmore Leonard, this wildly violent crime novel effectively evokes the comic-book heroics of the Superfly era while at the same time sucker punching us with the humanity at its core. The story takes place during the Bicentennial celebration in Washington, D.C., and has as its linchpin that familiar crime-plot device: the drug deal gone bad. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Vietnam vet and record-store owner Marcus Clay and his friend, small-time dealer Dimitri Karras, find themselves in possession of a large sum of cash belonging to a movie-loving, psychopathic ex-con and a… Leer más

N.Y.: Berkley Prime Crime, 1996. 1st edition, September 1996, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Kate Delafield title. "The fifth Kate Delafield mystery (e.g., Flashpoints, LJ 6/1/94) by Lamda award-winning author Forrest finds the LAPD homicide detective (and her lover, Aimee), in Washington, D.C., reluctantly attending her first Vietnam veterans' reunion. The memories Kate has tried so hard to repress for 25 years come flooding back when one of the vets is gruesomely murdered and she is pressed into service by the Washington police to probe the memories of her one-time colleagues in search of the killer. Despite some pedestrian writing and cliched characters, Forrest continues to deal with important issues, here prejudice against homosexuals as well as now-forgotten Vietnam vets." -- LIBRARY JOURNAL. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Forge, 2005. 1st Ed. FINE/NEAR FINE. DJ show minimal wear. After the Cold War the C.I.A. things the KGB has planted an atomic device deep within the heart of Washington, D.C.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

London: Allison & Busby, 1987. 1st hardcover edition. (Originally published as a paperback original in the U.S. in 1963 by Pocket Books.) Fine in dust jacket, very lightly rubbed, page edges lighly tanned, price clipped. A Parker title. First Thus. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Saint Martin's Press, 1993. 1st edition, August 1993, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in near fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "Slapstick prequel to The India Exhibition (1992), again featuring the hapless Henry Scruggs, the low-level State Department employee on loan (i.e., exiled) to the Smithsonian, where he can't find a date but keeps uncovering bodies of museum staff members who've been murdered, then disposed of in rococo ways. All the dead were on the review committee analyzing the work of IPES--the publications exchange department. Could Dr. Rebecca Haas be next? Henry and Smithsonian counsel Phoebe Casey are soon scouring the museum for clues and come up with: Dr. Haas's body. The method of dispatch, however, lacks the panache of the previous four, and Henry concludes that two killers are at work. A visit to the mailroom uncovers more trouble--a narcotics smuggling setup and a fortune in smuggled… Leer más

N.Y.: Random House, 1989. 1st edition, so stated. Slight spine slant, else about fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket. "Likely to follow Truman's eight earlier mysteries up the bestseller lists, her ninth opens with a grand performance at the Kennedy Center honoring Senator Ewald, favored to win his party's nomination for president. But hopes dim after the extravaganza when Professor MacKenzie (Mac) Smith finds an Ewald campaign worker, Andrea Feldman, shot dead behind the Center. The senator's son Paul, who has been sexually involved with Andrea, is arrested for the murder, whereupon his wife, Janet, disappears. As a professor of law and Ewald's friend, Mac uses his skills to investigate those in Ewald's orbit. The suspects include the senator's wife, Leslie, his campaign manager, Ed Farmer, and a host of others capable of murder so as to cause a scandal ruinous to the candidate. At last, Mac penetrates the mystery, thickly layered in the complexities of Washington… Leer más

N.Y.: Random House Inc, 1992. 1st edition, green cover over boards with gold lettering and design on the front and the spine, fine in dust jacket with wrap-around band promoting free paperback offer still intact. Air Force helicopter pilot and lawyer Major Margit Falk is assigned the defense of Robert Cobol, a CIA officer charged with the murder of Dr. Richard Joycelen. The victim, deputy director of a defense research project devoted to small nuclear devices, was shot inside the Pentagon, purportedly the most secure building in the world. While Margit works up Cobol's defense with the help of mentor Mackensiesic Smith, who has featured in earlier Truman mysteries, world powers adjust to the nuclear capability recently exhibited by a small Arab nation.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

NY,NY: Random House Inc, 2001. 1ST. ED. FINE/FINE. A Capital Crime novel set in Havana, Cuba as the main locale.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, LLC, 1990. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. Georgetown locale. "Alan Stuart, Washington lawyer and former State Department employee, is drawn into the world of international intrigue when an ex-colleague approaches him with suspicions about the leaking of American secrets to the Soviets. Shortly thereafter the man turns up dead, and Stuart becomes romantically involved with his widow despite indications that she knows more than she reveals. Agreeing to take the dead man's place during arms reduction negotiations in Geneva, this stodgy lawyer suddenly turns into an amateur James Bond. Events progress predictably until a very nasty surprise gives a memorable twist to the conclusion." -- Publishers Weekly. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Bantam, 1989. 1st edition, May 1989 with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. previous owner's blind stamp. His name is Quinn. He is the Negotiator. President Cormack is bent on a signing a sweeping U.S.-Soviet disarmament treaty, and the master conspirator is determined to stop him. The kidnapping of a young man on a country road in Oxfordshire is but the first brutal step in the explosive plot to engineer the president's destruction. Enter Quinn. Quinn plays the kidnappers like a master musician. . . until, in a shocking tumabout, he discovers that ransom was not their objection after all--and that he has been lured into a cunningly woven web. Now he must draw upon his deepest strength--to save not only the victim but the entire free world.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Dutton, 1991. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. " Did you ever consider that Secret Service agents are career civil servants who worry about pensions just like ordinary folks do? Slyly, Petievich toys with bureaucratic procedure and routine, edging his near-retirement-age hero out on the risky limb of tailing the President's own paramour, who may be a turncoat CIA agent spying for an Arab nation. As inured as we are to misbehavior in high places, this seems pretty tame. Suddenly, though, the woman, whose strong character is drawn convincingly and with hardly a patronizing breath, confronts our man, and thus starts the grim roller-coaster ride that separates Secret Service agents from flabby desk warmers. Petievich, whose earlier Earth Angels (NAL, 1989) and To Live and Die in L.A. (Arbor House, 1984) were well received, was himself a Secret Service agent for 15 years. He writes so matter-of-factly about the discipline, training, and commitment of the White House corps that the foolhardy actions of… Leer más