New York: Harper Collins, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Set mostly in California's Central Valley, this is a novel about the search to understand why a lone gunman opened fire on a busload of mostly Vietnamese and Cambodian children on a school trip and then killed himself. As forensic psychiatrist Leander Heartwood and Gabriel Chin, a Chinese American special agent for the state Department of Justice investigate the crime, they begin to suspect that there was someone else behind the gunman. A novel which gives a look into the dark underside of contemporary society, and the lingering effects of the war in Vietnam. SIGNED on the title page. 488 pp. ISBN: 0-060183608.