London: Hodder & Stoughton, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth thriller by this Irish author. Detective Charlie Parker is finding some measure of peace in his Maine farmhouse, when an old friend in South Carolina who is defending a young black man accused of raping and murdering his white girl friend calls for his help. SIGNED on the title page. 410 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-340821183.