New York: Bantam, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A thriller set in California - Bill Wile is an easy going hardworking guy who lives an ordinary life - but then he finds a typewritten note under the windshield wiper of his car. "If you don't take this note to the police and get them involved, I will kill a lovely blond schoolteacher somewhere in Napa County. If you do take this note to the police, I will instead kill an elderly woman active in charity work. You have six hours to decide. The choice is yours." INSCRIBED on the half title page and dated in the year of publication. 400 pp. ISBN: 0-553804154.