New York: Delacorte, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A thriller featuring Gregori Nowek and involving a savage triple murder in a small river town in Siberia which takes the reader from the intricate workings of a Siberian oil field to the bitter resolve of a gulag survivor, and a wild, violent chase across the frozen taiga. As a former oil roughneck and oil-logging engineer who has lived in Siberia, White knows the terrain he is writing about. INSCRIBED on the title page to the late Oklahoma collector Larry Owens - "new directions and a great old read." 441 pp. ISBN: 0-385316887.