New York: Doubleday, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first book, a novel about two young people, both looking for a new start in life, who meet at a hotel in San Francisco's Tenderloin district - "the story of two perfectly normal, intelligent, attractive, educated people who somehow become killers." SIGNED on the title page. Dust jacket praise from John Barth, Pinckney Benedict, Madison Smartt Bell (who called it a thinking person's thriller) and more. 242 pp. ISBN: 0-385484208.