New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book in this award-winning writer's North Beach series, a hard-boiled novel set in San Francisco and introducing Dante Mancuso who is leading a double life. He " works for The Company, a nebulous security organization operating just this side of the law. Dante wants out, but it's a hard life to leave behind-rich with its own seductions, its own dark attractions." SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-312324677.