New York: Ecco Press, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a highly praised collection of eight short stories - Jim Crace called it an "unexpected joy to discover a new resolute American writer with a global outlook. [These] sensitive but unflinching stories take us golfing in Myanmar, birding in Colombia and smuggling in Haiti to present a rogues' gallery of Quiet Americans in uniforms or business suits and a world turned toxic by their hunger for the deal, the dollar, the dame." Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Barnes & Noble Discover Award for Fiction. 229 pp. ISBN: 978-0060885588.