Boston: Little Brown, (1977.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a story about a San Francisco postal union member who leads a wildcat strike, set in late 1960's at the Spears Annex of San Francisco's post office where the author worked for eight years. Long blurb from Wallace Stegner on back cover of dust jacket - "this novel has real strength. It is - praise God - about something. The working and labor union world it deals with is real, solid, dense with the real problems of real lives.. . " 273 pp. ISBN: 0-316-824704.