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N.Y.: Fredrick A. Stokes Company, 1926. First edition. Orange cloth with black lettering. Spine lightly faded, corners bumped, covers lightly soiled, a very good, solid copy. Features Jerry Boyne; San Francisco, CA; 1907. Jerry Boyne who investigates the mysterious disappearance, in the middle of his re-election campaign, of District Attorney Ross Garrett, and in doing so, he uncovers a web of crooked cops and corrupt politicians. Scarce.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Book.
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THE 7TH PASSENGER
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The 81st Site
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NY: New American Library, 1980. 1st ed. Top of page edges dusty, else near fine in dust jacket lightly rubbed at rear panel. By the end of WW II, the Germans had built eighty-one brilliantly concealed flying missile sites to launch their V1-bombs against London. Eighty sites were discovered and destroyed. Thirty years later, a select group of die-hard fanatics scheme to deliver just one V1 right to the heart of London. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.
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THE ACOLYTE
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NY: Simon & Schuster, 1996. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Author's first book. Demoralized by the arrest of his candidate for the Senate, brilliant political tactician Greer Whitaker gets involved in a sensitive national security operation with the CIA, an operation with deadly implications.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.
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ACTS OF VIOLENCE
by Kozlenko, William (editor) Includes: Paul Bowles, Charles Beaumont, William Faulkner et al...
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NY: Pyramid G425, 1959. 1st edition, July 1959. PAPERBACK ORIGINAL. Cover by Richard Powers. Reading crease, light edgewear else a near fine copy. Masochism and Sadism / seething with hatred / driven by desire / blind with jealousy / ridden by fear. Driven by forces stronger than themselves they find fulfillment in the climax of violence. Here are their stories--twelve electryfing experiences probed by some of the finest writers of our time--twelve revelations that strip bare the dark reaches of human passion. Includes : William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Robert M. Coates, Flannery O'Connor, Paul bowles, Katherine Mansfield, Charles Beaumont, Shirley Ann Grau, Joseph Conrad, Stephen Moore, Villiers De I'Isle-Adam and Ellis St. Joseph.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Illus. by Powers, Richard. Paperback Original.
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ANONYMOUS SENDER
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Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources Inc, 1996. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. A beautiful young woman is found dead of a cocaine overdose. An embittered lover vows vengeance on the men who brutally shot his fiancee. The Russian mafia has its finger on the world's most deadly substance. And the lives of millions of U.S. citizens are in jeopardy. Little did Jake suspect that the innocent-looking package from East Coast Nautical Wares contained a much more dangerous cargo than the fishing lures he had ordered. This mistakenly delivered shipment starts a cataclysm of events that spans the globe: from a sleepy South Carolina town to cocaine factories in Colombia to the Russian mafia-owned warehouses in Vladivostok to the FBI and the CIA. Frighteningly realistic, this story of international terrorism and world security in the Information Age will have you on the edge of your seat.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.
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ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Viking Press, 1998. 1st American edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in near fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover.. Author is a former convict and drug addict. He has written a scorching debut novel of revenge. Made into a movie with James Woods and Melanie Griffin.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.
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THE AQUITAINE PROGRESSION
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N.Y.: Random House, 1984. 1st edition, so stated. top of page edge block is spotted, slight spine twist, blck cloth is near fine with gold lettering at spine bright, in a very lightly worn dust jacket , not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Geneva. There American lawyer Joel Converse meets a man he hasn't seen in twenty years, a covert operative who dies violently at his feet, whispering words that hand Converse a staggering legacy of death: "THE GENERALS...THEY'RE BACK...AQUITAINE!" Suddenly Converse is running for his life, alone with the world's most shattering secret. Pursued by anonymous executioners to the dark corners of Europe, he is forced to play a game of survival by blood rules he thought he'd long left behind. One by one, he traces each thread of a deadly progression to the heart of every major government--a network of coordinated global violence that no one believes possible. No one but Converse and the woman he once loved and lost. The…
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ARCHANGEL
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N.Y.: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1982. 1st ed. Fine in dj, one tiny chip out at rear. When British Intelligence asks Michael Holly, a mechanical engineer, to run an errand for them in the Soviet Union, the consequences of capture are never mentioned. But what seems a simple handover carries unimaginable risks, and now Holly is facing fifteen years imprisoned in a gulag in the midst of the frozen tundra. Along with his fellow inmates, Holly has to find the strength to fight the camp's brutal regime in any way he can. But Camp 3 is the place where hopes and dreams are brought to die. Against the might of the Soviet state, is Michael Holly strong enough to sustain his will to survive. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.
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ATLANTIC FURY
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London, United Kingdom: Collins, 1962. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket, stain at rear panel. The island of Laerg towers over the North Atlantic, a forbidding black rock with cliffs impossible to climb, its farthest heights wreathed in fog. Its an inhospitable place, whose last residents were forcibly evacuated in the 1930s, but Donald Ross, the artist son of an islander, has spent his life imagining its rugged beauty. When he finally comes home, however, the isle of his dreams may become his tomb. Donald is searching for his brother, Iain, believed lost at sea many years ago. He finds him living under an assumed identity at the British army outpost that now dominates Laerg. The weather soon turns sour, and the moment to evacuate draws near, but Iain delays. Hes seeking something on the rocky cliffs, and to find it he will sacrifice his sanity, his men, and his soul. Based on the Hebridean island of Hirta, Laerg is a truly unique creation. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. Book.
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THE AX **AWARD FINALIST**
by Westlake, Donald E.
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1997. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Chilling portrait of a downsized middle manager turned serial killer. A MACAVITY AWARD NOMINEE..... First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.
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AZRAEL
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NY: Mysterious Press, 1987. 1st ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.
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The Apocalypse Brigade
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Henry Holt & Co, 1981. 1st ed., with complete number line. Very good in dust jacket wrinkles at spine foot. The Apocolypse Brigade sketches a senario where America is unable, and unwilling to defend our way of life against terrorists due to deep divisions in the country. A group of powerful industrialists take matters into their own hands by infiltrating high positions in government and building the capability to remove the main terrorist weapon from their hands without the presidents approval or knowledge. While not a solution that any would like, it seems to be effective and is quietly implemented. The end comes in a startling and swift fashion. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Book.
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BELLS FOR THE DEAD
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Garden City: NY: The Crime Club, Inc., : Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc.,, 1942. 1st edition, so stated. Green cloth binding very light wear at rear else about fine in homemade acetate jacket. White pages and tight binding. 300 pages. Joan Thorntree journeys with her new husband, Jeremy, to his family estate in Guatemala, a fantastic Walt Disney castle on the shores of a lake high in the mountains. She finds herself the intruder, the outlander, with a hostile reception from the entire household. Worst of all, Jeremy is a different person at home than the charming, gay young man she had married in New York. It is obvious that everyone is intent on making her life so unbearable that she would return to the States of her own accord. When a member of the family dies a violent, Joan realizes that she is the scapegoat to bear the the brunt of any blame that might fall. It becomes impossible for her to return to New York and get out of the situation. Native superstition, the dread of being alone…
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BERLIN GAME
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NY: Random House Inc, 1983. 1st ed. Near fine in dust jacket. the first book in the Game,Set and Match Trilogy. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.
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BLACK CIPHER
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N.Y.: Crown 1994, 1994. 1st ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover, price clipped. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.
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BLINDFOLD
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London, United Kingdom: Hutchinson, 2003. 1st ed. Fine, unread copy. Stacey's 2nd book. Gideon Blake, artist and animal behaviourist, is used to dealing with distressed and unpredictable animals. But on one cold February night, he is faced with the challenge of his life. Abducted from his home, handcuffed, and blindfolded, gideon is inexplicably forced by his violent captors to catch a dangerous and highly-strung stallion.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.
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BLOOD ON THE MOON: A Novel of Suspense
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mysterious Press, 1984. 1st ed. A Fine, pristine book in a fine, bright dust jacket. No remainder mark, uncommon thus. The first Lloyd Hopkins mystery. Someone is stalking the streets of Los Angeles.someone who can match Det. Sgt. Lloyd Hopkins point for point in intelligence. But Teddy Verplanck has turned his mind to evil by protecting the innocent by killing them. He has been so successful for twenty years that not one of his victims has been connected to another. Basis for the film Cop starring James Woods as Hopkins. . First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Book.
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A BURNT-OUT CASE
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London: UK: William Heinemann Ltd, 1961. 1st edition, January 1961. Top of page edges spotted, else fine, bound in it's original black cloth boards with silver lettering to the spine in near fine dust jacket, lightly darkened at spine, not price clipped (16s net), , in protective mylar cover. Dust Wrapper design by Lacey Everett. Querry, a world-famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a "burnt-out case", a leper who has gone through a stage of mutilation. However, as Querry loses himself in work for the lepers his disease of mind slowly approaches a cure. Then the white community finds out who Querry is.... 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Everett, Lacey. Book.
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Bump in the Night
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 1988. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. The nightmare begins on November 12 when Martha Tierney faces what every mother dreads: her son Jonathan is missing. With a raging hangover, Martha must pull herself together and face a crisis of terrifiying proportions. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.
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THE CANNIBAL HEART
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N.Y.: Random House, 1949. First edition, so stated. Color variation to boards, very light edge wear in dust jacket, unclipped, $2.50 price intact, piece out at head of spine, a few closed tears, rubbed and soiled at rear. Millar gazes unflinchingly at the psychology of a deranged adult and their struggle to control their basest impulses. Suspenseful to the last, The Cannibal Heart could only be written by an author that was unafraid of asking the most unsettling of questions and peering into the darkest cravings of the human soul. This story covers three days in the lives of a young New York family who become lodgers at the country house of a mysterious widow who is in possession of "The Cannibal Heart." The widow will stop at nothing, even murder, to get what the heart desires. . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-Near Fine/Good-Very Good. Book.
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