The River Sorrow

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Delacorte Press, 1994. 1st edition, October 1994, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, with one small sticker pull,not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Holden's debut novel is an exceptionally adroit thriller about a young doctor whose drug-riddled past comes back to haunt him. Adrian Lancaster is the emergency-room physician in a Morgantown, Mich., hospital whose troubles begin when some of his friends from his days as an addict start to turn up dead or seriously injured. Eventually, Lancaster becomes a murder suspect, caught up in a scheme to manufacture a synthetic form of heroin and introduce it into the Detroit pipeline. Others under suspicion include a mysterious woman named Storm Summers, some of the federal investigators who take charge of the case and a prominent Detroit building contractor. Lancaster finds himself being investigated by Frank Brandon, a hard-boiled, chain-smoking police detective who is caught between dedication to his job and caring for his recently crippled wife. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.