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The Smack
by Richard Lang
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 031632762X
- ISBN 13
- 9780316327626
- Seller
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
NY: Little, Brown and Company, 2017. SIGNED. 1st/1st. Purchased New. NF/F. Stated First Edition July 2017 with complete 10 number line ending with 1. Signed by Richard Lange on the title page during an appearance/book signing in New York City. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and clean boards. The front top corner is mildly bumped and creases to the spine bottom. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($26.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 352 numbered pages.
Rowan Petty is a conman down on his luck. He's flat broke, living out of cheap hotels, and wondering how it all went wrong. His car quits on him in Reno, and he takes a job there on the bottom rung of a lousy phone scam. When an old friend of his turns up spreading a rumor about two million dollars in army money smuggled out of Afghanistan and stashed in an apartment in Los Angeles, it seems like a chance at the score of a lifetime. So Petty and a sweet-talking hooker head south, and straight into trouble. A wounded vet, a washed-up actor, and Petty's estranged daughter are all players in the dangerous game they find themselves caught up in. For the winner: a fortune. For the loser: a bullet to the head.
Rowan Petty is a conman down on his luck. He's flat broke, living out of cheap hotels, and wondering how it all went wrong. His car quits on him in Reno, and he takes a job there on the bottom rung of a lousy phone scam. When an old friend of his turns up spreading a rumor about two million dollars in army money smuggled out of Afghanistan and stashed in an apartment in Los Angeles, it seems like a chance at the score of a lifetime. So Petty and a sweet-talking hooker head south, and straight into trouble. A wounded vet, a washed-up actor, and Petty's estranged daughter are all players in the dangerous game they find themselves caught up in. For the winner: a fortune. For the loser: a bullet to the head.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3918
- Title
- The Smack
- Author
- Richard Lang
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 031632762X
- ISBN 13
- 9780316327626
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2017
- Pages
- 352
- Keywords
- con man, thriller, mystery
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions; Signed Books;
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About the Seller
Armadillo Alley Books
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Carrollton, Texas
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