New York: Simon & Schuster, (2000.) dj. SIGNED first edition - Novel set in Hot Springs, Arkansas in 1946, where the source of real prosperity was not the springs but the brothels and the casinos run by organized crime. As Hunter explains, there was a veterans' revolt, led by a heroic prosecuting attorney, in 1946 which ultimately defeated the old line mob and gambling interests - but the actual conflict was much less violent than he made it in this book. Features ex-marine Earl Swagger. SIGNED on the title page. 478 pp.