New York: Mysterious Press, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A thriller that ranges from Northern California to the Louisiana bayous. When Eddie Dain's life is blown up, he returns as a "dead man" - dead to joy, dead to his past, as he hires himself out as a hitman. SIGNED on the title page and INSCRIBED on the half title page to the late Oklahoma collector Larry Owens - a long inscription which fills the whole page and starts out "I don't know if I told you the herpetologist story about this book . . . ". 260 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-541x.