RITUAL. [Author SIGNED copy.]

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.[Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.] NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,but author's handwritten signature and no price-clip.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj with b/w lettering,a white circular adhesive,black lettered 'SIGNED FIRST EDITION' label to front panel of dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edges dw/dj with minimal edge creases along with both head+foot of same minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing and front lower corner with a small diagonal,concomitant crease from front board's lower corner bump/crease and book has a slight lean.Some minor,small indents to front panel minimally affecting the board beneath.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, would appear unread - apart from my own collation.Bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a silver+black striped headband and immaculate plain dark blue endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9-410pp [paginated] includes a prologue,57 chapters,and acknowledgements,plus [unpaginated] half-title, SIGNED title page,a dedication,title separator page and to the rear,6pp blanks.
Just after lunch on a Tuesday in April,nine feet underwater,police diver Flea Marley closes her gloved fingers around a human hand.The fact that there's no body attached id disturbing enough.Yet more disturbing is the discovery,a day later,of the matching hand.Both have been recently amputated,and the indications are that the victim was still alive when they were removed.Newly seconded to the Major Crime Investigation Unit in Bristol,DI Jack Caffery is attempting to leave behind his failed personal life in London.Still haunted by the disappearance of his brother,he is looking for a man recently released from a high-security prison,a man who sleeps rough and walks the country roads as he relives the memories of a terrifying crime.Caffery and Flea soon establish that the hands belong to a boy who has recently disappeared.Their search for him,and for his abductor,leads them into the darkest recesses of Bristol's underworld,where drug addiction is rife,where street-kids sell themselves for a hit,and where an ancient evil lurks; an evil that feeds off the blood - and flesh - of others . . . 'Ritual' is the opening novel in Mo Hayder's 'Walking Man' series. This is also her fifth published work and the first two of the four titles - 'Birdman' and 'the treatment' to also featured DI Jack Caffery. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE.
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