Missionary Stew
de Ross Thomas (1926-1995) inscribed
- Usado
- near fine
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Near Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0671493639
- ISBN 13
- 9780671493639
- Librería
-
Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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300 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in quarter black cloth with salmon colored boards and gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial. Inscribed by the author. First edition.
Missionary Stew follows Draper Haere on a frenetic hunt to uncover the secret behind a right-wing coup in an named Central American country, and he hires Morgan Citron's investigative talents to help get to the bottom of things. The truth, they are told, is enough to knock the opposition right out of the White House in 84, clearing the way for Haeres candidate. On hand to thwart their efforts are Gladys Citron, Morgans mother and editor of a sensationalist American tabloid, and Byron Shelley Keats, Velveetas father and speculator in automated discount shoe-stores and cocaine. The elder Citron and Keats hold the key to a mysterious $55 million drug war waged by the FBI against the CIA, and they will stop at nothing, including the possible murder of their own children, to prevent their secret from being discovered. Missionary Stew is a brilliantly outrageous and subversively witty romp through a corrupt Central American regime bankrolled by US dollars-a fast-paced, intricately plotted novel certain to delight the most demanding and sophisticated reader.
Condition: Inscription to title, Shuster's stamp to heal end pages. else a near fine copy in a fine jacket.
Missionary Stew follows Draper Haere on a frenetic hunt to uncover the secret behind a right-wing coup in an named Central American country, and he hires Morgan Citron's investigative talents to help get to the bottom of things. The truth, they are told, is enough to knock the opposition right out of the White House in 84, clearing the way for Haeres candidate. On hand to thwart their efforts are Gladys Citron, Morgans mother and editor of a sensationalist American tabloid, and Byron Shelley Keats, Velveetas father and speculator in automated discount shoe-stores and cocaine. The elder Citron and Keats hold the key to a mysterious $55 million drug war waged by the FBI against the CIA, and they will stop at nothing, including the possible murder of their own children, to prevent their secret from being discovered. Missionary Stew is a brilliantly outrageous and subversively witty romp through a corrupt Central American regime bankrolled by US dollars-a fast-paced, intricately plotted novel certain to delight the most demanding and sophisticated reader.
Condition: Inscription to title, Shuster's stamp to heal end pages. else a near fine copy in a fine jacket.
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- Librería
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- L4299
- Título
- Missionary Stew
- Autor
- Ross Thomas (1926-1995) inscribed
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0671493639
- ISBN 13
- 9780671493639
- Editorial
- Simon and Schuster
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1983
- Páginas
- 300 pages
- Tamaño
- Octavo
- Palabras clave
- Mystery, Espionage. Detective and Thriller
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Literature;
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