New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's fourth novel, an intricate literary thriller - Zane is "an American in Paris, where he unravels coded computer messages for an agency that clandestinely monitors civil wars, terrorism and human rights abuses worldwide. Haunted by thoughts of his mother, a jailed '60s radical, Zane desperately seeks three men: a Nigerian poet turned fanatic revolutionary, an English colleague who has disappeared in Africa, and a Swedish doctor who assists mercenaries in "humane" forms of torture. . . The action shifts from a Parisian jazz club to Nigeria and then to Mali" (PW) SIGNED on the half title page. 324 pp. ISBN: 0-394581075.