Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith Books, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - Canadian author's first novel - "Eugene H. is a failed, womanizing writer from Toronto. After a nasty flare-up with his ex-wife, he snatches their five-year-old daughter from school and flees to Jamaica. Over the next eighteen hours he muddles over his life, fumes, plots, drinks rum, regrets, reminisces, encounters a young woman with grey eyes, a coffin maker, a black Napoleon on his motorcycleand a host of other creatures from the Jamaican night." Cover praise from William S. Burroughs and Northrup Frye, among others. 222 pp. ISBN: 0-879052708.