Recent Arrivals from Best Inscriptions

A SIGNED & DATED paperback original copy of James Grady's second police procedural featuring Baltimore homicide detective Devlin Rourke. From back cover: An elusive madman known as the Reaper is leaving his bloody calling card in cities across America. It's always the same pattern: First a bizarre religious ad appears in the local paper. Then a prostitute is slaughtered. Finally,… Read more about this item

SIGNED & INSCRIBED Near-Fine paperback original copy of best-selling writer James Grady's gritty crime novel, set in Baltimore. From the back cover: It begins with four brutal killings. The elevator doors open. Within seconds, four bullet-riddle bodies litter the cold concrete floor of the underground parking garage. A Vietnamese woman, a businessman, a DJ, an accountant--complete strangers, their lives obscured… Read more about this item

SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLE PAGE ("Nobody can own a city, but some people die trying!"). Best-selling author James Grady takes us into America's once-mighty industrial heartland, now a rusting relic, for an explosive story of tough times, greed, murder, and vengeance. As new condition.

SIGNED & INSCRIBED copy of James Grady's third novel, set in Montana, where a small band of ranchers fights the destruction of their land and their way of life by a strip-mining company willing to pay a fortune for access to the rich coal vein beneath their ranches.

SIGNED copy of best-selling suspense writer James Grady's fourth novel, the first of a series featuring private eye John Rankin. This story is set against the stark world of Washington, D.C., where passion, politics, and brutal crimes merge in the shadows of our national monuments. "Runner in the Street" follows Rankin as he is sucked into an increasingly tangled web--all… Read more about this item

Very nice copy of this political thriller by French authord Loup Durand. The dangerous Jaguar is a murderer. He's a pacifist millionaire. He's the most dangerous terrorist on earth. He's a man in love. He's the Jaguar. All he has to do is survive.

First Edition, Fourth Printing (October 1991) of the highly acclaimed first novel of Louis Begley, who was in his 60s when the book was published in 1991, winning the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Irish Times Aer Lingus Book Prize. Begley's debut work also was nominated for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. It tells the… Read more about this item

AUTHOR WILL SIGN AND INSCRIBE THIS BOOK TO SUIT BUYER!! Latham, New York: British American Publishing, Ltd., 1991 Marion S. Barry, Jr., the controversial and charismatic former mayor of the nation's capital, is the subject of a fascinating portrait by award-winning journalist Jonathan Agronsky. The author takes the myriad pieces of a complex puzzle and assembles them skillfully into a… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Forge, 2000 SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLE PAGE: "James Dalton" is the pen name that Grady used for his 13th novel. In "City of Shadows" the veteran suspense writer revists the Watergate era, inventing a chilling "What if?" scenario of what "really" happened bebind the scenes in Washington during Richard Nixon's… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Macmillan, 1985. SIGNED, DATED and INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLE PAGE. Suspense writer James Grady's 7th novel, in which Washington, D.C., private eye John Rankin accepts an assignment from a femme fatale with a very unusual request: She wanted to know not who killed a prominent Washingtonian, but how well the killer covered his… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Crown, 2003 BRAND NEW,PERSONALLY INSCRIBED, DATED AND SIGNED COPIES of David Corn's bestselling expose of the lies and deceptions that helped propel George W. Bush first into the White House, then into the deadly quagmire of Iraq. (See attached photos for exact inscriptions!) Certain to become a classic, since Corn was the first author to peek… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Warner Books, 1994 A BRAND NEW, SIGNED AND DATED COPY of James Grady's 11th suspense novel. In his second, post-Cold War, spy thriller (following "River of Darkness") , Grady traces the increasingly desperate efforts of the Company's official liaison to the U.S. Senate, to track down the killer of a trusted CIA colleague. James Ellroy deemed… Read more about this item

New York, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999 SIGNED, DATED AND PERSONALLY INSCRIBED COPY of veteran national political journalist David Corn's first novel (his short story, "My Murder," was nominated for an Edgar Allen Poe Mystery Writing Award in 1997). "Deep Background" is a compelling tale of Washington political intrigue, into which the reader is quickly thrust after U.S.… Read more about this item

West Hollywood, California: Dove Books, 1996 This is a BRAND NEW, SIGNED AND DATED, copy of James Grady's 12th novel, "White Flame" (1996), which COULD HAVE BEEN RIPPED FROM TODAY'S HEADLINES, now that we have a major black presidential candidate in BARACK OBAMA! The veteran suspense novelist spins a tale here about a brilliant, charismatic, but also controversial, black ex-con… Read more about this item