New York: Ecco Press / Harper Collins, (2018). SIGNED first edition - His first detective novel since "Motherless Brooklyn", a novel about "weird, off-the-grid America. Phoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer on the eastern edge of Los Angeles. She's looking for her friend's missing daughter, Arabella, and hires Heist to help. A laconic loner who keeps his pet opossum in a desk drawer, Heist intrigues the sarcastic and garrulous Phoebe. The unlikely pair navigate the enclaves of desert-dwelling vagabonds and find that Arabella is in serious trouble caught in the middle of a violent standoff." SIGNED on the title page. 327 pp.