New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's second novel - "at once a stylish political thriller, a high-voltage romance. . . it opens in Los Angeles in our own time. . The freeways are jammed, the fires in the canyon quick and obliterating. . . sunglasses are an obligatory accessory, and somewhere, on another continent, behind locked doors in clandestine locations, the fate of the world is being decided by graying men." SIGNED and dated on the half title page. 402 pp. ISBN: 0-394-584783.