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NY: Simon and Schuster, 1997. BCE/BOMC. Hardcover_boards. Fine/Fine. 6.25"x9.5" 333 pgs. Light gray boards. Red spine w/gold foil letters on spine. Designed by Karolina Harris. DJ design and photo by Tony Greco. Author photo Julie Dennis. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), & unmarked. Gift Quality. Secure ship w/track #. From the author of the stunning bestseller Days of Drums comes a novel of Washington intrigue that thrusts the reader into a whirlwind of murder spawned by elaborately masked scandals in the corridors of power. When General Griffin North, a highly decorated African American icon, is killed in a suspicious plane crash, the special commission, led by renowned federal judge Simon Esterhaus, deems it a tragic accident caused by pilot error. But Mollie Smith of the Criminal Investigation Division vows to keep the investigation alive -- single-handedly and on her own terms, if necessary. Certain the general was assassinated, and keenly aware that certain officials in high places would have stopped at nothing to keep a black man from a possible vice-presidential nomination, Mollie intensifies ...Source: Publisher.