New York: Forge / Tom Doherty Associates, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A fast-paced thriller, set in 2000 - "A postal worker and a customer are found murdered in a rural Montana post office. U.S. Postal Inspectors Gillian Loomis and Max Dombrowski are ordered to investigate the brutal crime.. Both have secrets in their background, but when they start looking for evidence, they work together all right, uncovering the existence of three letters written in 1918 by a man named Sharpless Walker. Somehow, those letters are connected to the murders.. . and to the sinking of the Lusitania, and so is Sharpless Walker. Whatever dark secret was buried with Walker won't stay buried." The Boston Globe commented "Despite menacing action, Rice never loses control of his characters, who balance strength and weakness with familiar authenticity. In his hands, pulsing adventure and complicated characters are wonderfully compatible." SIGNED on the title page. Highly recommended. 396 pp. ISBN: 0-0765303604.