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  • INTERCEPTED: The Rise and Fall of NFL Cornerback Darryl Henley. by McKnight, Michael.
    McKnight, Michael.
    INTERCEPTED: The Rise and Fall of NFL Cornerback Darryl Henley.

    Edition: First printing.

    Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Raised by supportive parents, and educated at a boys-only parochial school, Darryl Henley had it all. He earned a history degree from UCLA, became a first-team All American for the Bruins in 1988, and was a rising star as the starting cornerback for the LA Rams in the early nineties. . . The product of eight years of investigative research and over one hundred interviews, [this] takes us into Henleys fourth season in the NFL, when he met Rams cheerleader Tracy Donaho and bumped into a boyhood friend named Willie McGowan, a onetime youth-league standout who had since turned to drug trafficking. . . Detailing how one of…

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    Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Raised by supportive parents, and educated at a boys-only parochial school, Darryl Henley had it all. He earned a history degree from UCLA, became a first-team All American for the Bruins in 1988, and was a rising star as the starting cornerback for the LA Rams in the early nineties. . . The product of eight years of investigative research and over one hundred interviews, [this] takes us into Henleys fourth season in the NFL, when he met Rams cheerleader Tracy Donaho and bumped into a boyhood friend named Willie McGowan, a onetime youth-league standout who had since turned to drug trafficking. . . Detailing how one of the best and brightest of our professional athletes destroyed himself through temptation, arrogance, and anger at a justice system that he felt had failed him, [this] is also a cautionary tale about American culture." Map, photographs, notes. 511 pp. ISBN: 978-0803238497.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 79387
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  • ANGEL DEATH by Moyes, Patricia
    Moyes, Patricia
    ANGEL DEATH

    Edition: First printing.

    London: Collins, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - An Inspector Henry Tibbetts mystery, set in the British Windward Islands in the Caribbean, where Henry and Emmy are hoping for a quiet vacation - only to discover that the islands were the center of a vicious drug ring, smuggling PCP - angel dust. Although the islands on which this is set are imaginary, Moyes was living in the Caribbean at the time this novel was published and it was based on some very real problems. 268 pp.. ISBN: 0-00-231861x.

    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped)

    Book ID: 73851
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  • START SHOOTING. by Newton, Charlie.
    Newton, Charlie.
    START SHOOTING.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Doubleday, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel (and the first to be published in hardcover), a gritty thriller set in a very corrupt Chicago. 305 pp. ISBN: 978-0385534697.

    Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (tear to upper edge of dj)

    Book ID: 65348
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  • BOX NINE. by O'Connell, Jack.
    O'Connell, Jack.
    BOX NINE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Mysterious Press, (1992). Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, winner of the Mysterious Press Discovery contest for best first crime novel. Set in a decaying industrial city in Massachusetts, detective Lenore Thomas is teamed with a Chinese linguist as part of a police task force tracking down the makers and dealers of a new drug that induces murderous rage. Meanwhile her twin brother Ike, a postal worker, is involved in his own investigation. A novel in which the disintegration of a young woman mirrors the decay of the city in which it is set. 309 pp. ISBN: 0-892964723.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 81471
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  • BUFFALO SOLDIERS. by O'Connor, Robert.
    O'Connor, Robert.
    BUFFALO SOLDIERS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - Granta 20 author's very highly praised first novel - "Set on a luxuriously appointed and hopelessly corrupt Army base in Mannheim, Germany, where the soldiers prefer real-life race riots to mock combat, [this] viciously funny novel is conclusive proof that peace is hell and the U.S. Army is its ninth circle. Specialist Ray Elwood is the ultimate survivor: a high-stakes drug dealer, bureaucratic con artist, and shrewd collector of other people's secrets. . . With its impeccably rendered cast of sycophants, drug burn-outs, and uniformed sociopaths, [this is] a scabrous, haunting vision of a military idled by the New World Order and at all-out war with itself." Basis…

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    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - Granta 20 author's very highly praised first novel - "Set on a luxuriously appointed and hopelessly corrupt Army base in Mannheim, Germany, where the soldiers prefer real-life race riots to mock combat, [this] viciously funny novel is conclusive proof that peace is hell and the U.S. Army is its ninth circle. Specialist Ray Elwood is the ultimate survivor: a high-stakes drug dealer, bureaucratic con artist, and shrewd collector of other people's secrets. . . With its impeccably rendered cast of sycophants, drug burn-outs, and uniformed sociopaths, [this is] a scabrous, haunting vision of a military idled by the New World Order and at all-out war with itself." Basis for the 2001 film starring Ed Harris, Joaquin Phoenix, and Anna Paquin. Cover praise from J. G. Ballard, James Ellroy and more. 324 pp. ISBN: 0-67941508.

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    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 86724
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  • O'Nan, Stewart.
    THE SPEED QUEEN.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Doubleday, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Offbeat novel by this prize-winning author - a woman awaiting execution on death row recounts - on tape, addressed to Stephen King - the events that led to her becoming the "speed queen" - from mainlining speed with her husband to dealing to robbery and to mass murder. Now she is counting on "America's greatest storyteller, the king of horror" to tell her story correctly. Dedicated to "My Dear Stephen King" -. ISBN: 0-385-487010.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 35851
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  • AT SEA. by Olson, Toby.
    Olson, Toby.
    AT SEA.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Simon & Schuster, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - Sixth novel by this award-winning writer, set on the far end of Cape Cod, where Olson lives much of the time. "Provincetown cop Peter Blue, is investigating the rape of Beth Charters - and trying to get over shooting drug-runner Jimmy Hale, who was carrying Beth's phone number in his wallet - when his wife Sara, called back to Wisconsin by her mother's illness, decides to return to her old home without him. Things get worse: Peter learns that Beth's been attacked again, raped, and killed. It's obvious that there are connections between Beth's killing and Jimmy's survivors - including a cantankerous father and a sinister cousin who…

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    New York: Simon & Schuster, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - Sixth novel by this award-winning writer, set on the far end of Cape Cod, where Olson lives much of the time. "Provincetown cop Peter Blue, is investigating the rape of Beth Charters - and trying to get over shooting drug-runner Jimmy Hale, who was carrying Beth's phone number in his wallet - when his wife Sara, called back to Wisconsin by her mother's illness, decides to return to her old home without him. Things get worse: Peter learns that Beth's been attacked again, raped, and killed. It's obvious that there are connections between Beth's killing and Jimmy's survivors - including a cantankerous father and a sinister cousin who have already been harassing Peter; what isn't obvious is the strange shapes these connections, forged in a gay bar and another smuggling racket, will finally take." (Kirkus Reviews) 239 pp. ISBN: 0-671736418.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 87372
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  • DARK LADY. by Patterson, Richard North.
    Patterson, Richard North.
    DARK LADY.

    Edition: First trade edition.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. dj. Hardcover first edition - Legal thriller featuring Assistant County Prosecutor Stella Marz (known as the Dark Lady), set in a struggling midwestern city. 371 pp. ISBN: 0-679-450432.

    Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket. (prev owner's name)

    Book ID: 12881
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  • SHAME THE DEVIL. by Pelecanos, George P.
    Pelecanos, George P.
    SHAME THE DEVIL.

    Edition: First printing.

    Boston: Little Brown, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - Thriller set in Washington, D. C. - the Farrow brothers have come to the city with mayhem on their minds, but one of the brothers is killed by a cop after a robbery that goes spectacularly wrong, the other brother vows to get revenge on every one involved in his brother's death. 299 pp. ISBN: 0-316695262.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 65297
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  • GLASS HOUSES. by Penny, Louise
    Penny, Louise
    GLASS HOUSES.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2017). First edition - Novel in the award winning series featuring Chief Superintendent Armand Gamache, centering on the village of Three Pines. Author's note. 391 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 72371
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  • GLASS HOUSES. by Penny, Louise
    Penny, Louise
    GLASS HOUSES.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2017). Hardcover first edition - Novel in the award winning series featuring Chief Superintendent Armand Gamache, centering on the village of Three Pines. 391 pp. ISBN: 978-1250066190.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 72041
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  • GLASS HOUSES. by Penny, Louise
    Penny, Louise
    GLASS HOUSES.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2017). Hardcover first edition - Novel in the award winning series featuring Chief Superintendent Armand Gamache, centering on the village of Three Pines. 391 pp. ISBN: 978-1250066190.

    Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket (tear and creasing to bottom edge of back cover of dj).

    Book ID: 88498
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  • SPIDERTOWN. by Rodriguez, Abraham, Jr.
    Rodriguez, Abraham, Jr.
    SPIDERTOWN.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Hyperion, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel (second book) by this highly praised Bronx-born Puerto Rican author, the story of young kids in the Bronx caught up in the reckless but high-flying drug world as "runners." 323 pp. ISBN: 1-562828452.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 87234
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  • FADEAWAY. by Rosen, Richard.
    Rosen, Richard.
    FADEAWAY.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Harper & Row, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second mystery featuring former baseball player turned private investigator, Harvey Blissberg (the first in the series won the Edgar award), Set in the world of professional basketball, mostly in Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island. 264 pp. ISBN: 0-06-015599x.

    Condition: Fine in a near fine dust jacket (sunning to spine of dj).

    Book ID: 62246
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  • FADEAWAY. by Rosen, Richard.
    Rosen, Richard.
    FADEAWAY.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Harper & Row, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second mystery featuring former baseball player turned private investigator, Harvey Blissberg (the first in the series won the Edgar award), Set in the world of professional basketball, mostly in Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island. 264 pp. ISBN: 0-06-015599x.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (previous owner's name)

    Book ID: 85631
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  • SPIDER MOON. by Shirley, John.
    Shirley, John.
    SPIDER MOON.

    Edition: Limited, signed first edition.

    Baltimore: Cemetery Dance Publications, 2002. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A gritty crime novel, set in San Francisco. One of 1500 unnumbered copies in the deluxe edition, SIGNED on a special tipped in page by the author. "Things go very wrong all at once for narrator Slim Purdoux, an editor at a San Francisco publishing house just bought by an international conglomerate. During a meeting in which he's told he's being transferred to New York, he gets a call alerting him that his teenage son has just died of tainted illegal drugs. After visiting the hospital, Slim returns to work and walks into a bloodbath caused by a gun-toting, alienated employee; when the cops arrive, they mistake Slim…

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    Baltimore: Cemetery Dance Publications, 2002. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A gritty crime novel, set in San Francisco. One of 1500 unnumbered copies in the deluxe edition, SIGNED on a special tipped in page by the author. "Things go very wrong all at once for narrator Slim Purdoux, an editor at a San Francisco publishing house just bought by an international conglomerate. During a meeting in which he's told he's being transferred to New York, he gets a call alerting him that his teenage son has just died of tainted illegal drugs. After visiting the hospital, Slim returns to work and walks into a bloodbath caused by a gun-toting, alienated employee; when the cops arrive, they mistake Slim for the killer, and he flees, determined to exact revenge on whoever sold his son the drugs.. . The novel vibrates with energy, but its Shirley's ability to present without condemnation the wild hopes and shattered dreams, the raw essence of each of his characters that marks this as a novel thats not only grittily exciting but wise as well." (Publisher's Weekly) 170 pp. ISBN: 1-587670542.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (dust jacket folded slightly off-center)

    Book ID: 83793
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  • EASY MONEY. by Siler, Jenny.
    Siler, Jenny.
    EASY MONEY.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Henry Holt, (1999.). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, a thriller. "Reaching back to a brilliantly concealed operation during the Vietnam War, ducking into drug dens, spiraling through seedy strip joints, and blazing across the country, Jenny Siler weaves a devastating tale of murder and deception in her stunning debut." SIGNED on the title page. 262 pp. Very different cover art than the final hardcover edition.

    Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (light crease affecting front cover and several pages at beginning of book).

    Book ID: 55107
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  • Smith, Carl T.
    LOWCOUNTRY BOIL.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    Montgomery, AL: River City Publishing, 2003. SIGNED first edition - A novel of corruption and drug smuggling set in the South Carolina lowcountry during the 1970's. Cover praise from Pat Conroy and Les Standiford.

    Condition: INSCRIBED on the title page by the author. Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 26028
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  • GO DOWN DEAD. by Stevens, Shane (1938?- 2007)
    Stevens, Shane (1938?- 2007)
    GO DOWN DEAD.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Morrow, (1966) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's highly praised first book, a novel set in Harlem in the 1960s - the story of King Henry, 16 years old, and he knows a lot - he knows who sells what - drugs, sex, guns and bullets. And most of all, he knows hopelessness and the one way out of it.
    While some authors (among them Ishmael Reed) have criticized Stevens for being a white man writing about black lives, his life and attitudes were complex - Stevens described the language in this book as Òthe language of the people who live it. So that the reader may become a participant and not just a spectator. It…

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    New York: Morrow, (1966) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's highly praised first book, a novel set in Harlem in the 1960s - the story of King Henry, 16 years old, and he knows a lot - he knows who sells what - drugs, sex, guns and bullets. And most of all, he knows hopelessness and the one way out of it.
    While some authors (among them Ishmael Reed) have criticized Stevens for being a white man writing about black lives, his life and attitudes were complex - Stevens described the language in this book as Òthe language of the people who live it. So that the reader may become a participant and not just a spectator. It is a language of pain, or despair and neglect - yes, and of hope as well.Ó Stevens grew up in largely black neighborhoods, of HellÕs Kitchen and then Harlem, and he wrote about what he knew. Stephen KIng commented that Stevens produced "three of the finest novels ever written about the dark side of the American Dream." 236 pp.

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    Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (short closed tear to fold of dj, other minor edgewear, crease on front flap)

    Book ID: 84176
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  • CANDLELAND. by Waites, Martyn.
    Waites, Martyn.
    CANDLELAND.

    Edition: First printing.

    London: Allison & Busby, (2000). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Karen Moir ran away from home in Edinburgh when she was just sixteen; all her father, Detective Inspector Henry Moir, knows is that she was headed for London. With the help of investigative journalist, Steven Larkin, who is himself still dealing with the murder of his wife and child, he sets out to find her - betweem warring drug dealers, child prostitution and gangsters fighting for control, the search becomes a dangerous trawl through London's underworld. One reviewer commented "This novel is disturbing in its use of violence, but the psychological insights are carefully wrought and thoroughly convincing." (Booklist) SIGNED on the title page. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-749004649.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 84460
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  • THE DEATH AND LIFE OF BOBBY Z. by Winslow, Don.
    Winslow, Don.
    THE DEATH AND LIFE OF BOBBY Z.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    London: Century, (1997). SIGNED first edition - The true first edition of this novel about a 3 strike loser, who happens to kill a Hell's Angel - and is offered a deal by the DEA. Great desert survival story - and a really good read! SIGNED on the title page. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-7126-77542.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wraps with self-flaps (some light toning to the pages)

    Book ID: 70609
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  • Winslow, Don.
    THE DEATH AND LIFE OF BOBBY Z.

    Edition: First edition.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997 dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The story of a 3 strike loser, who happens to kill a Hell's Angel - and is offered a deal by the DEA. Great desert survival story. SIGNED on the title page. 259 pp. ISBN: 0-679-454292.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder dot).

    Book ID: 37557
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  • Winslow, Don.
    THE DEATH AND LIFE OF BOBBY Z.

    Edition: First US printing and first hardcover edition.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997 dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The story of a 3 strike loser, who happens to kill a Hell's Angel - and is offered a deal by the DEA. Great desert survival story. SIGNED on the title page. 259 pp. ISBN: 0-679-454292.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)

    Book ID: 17708
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  • ALIBI. by Woods, Teri.
    Woods, Teri.
    ALIBI.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2009.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her hardcover debut - "Two men think they've found the perfect opportunity--a chance to rob the stash house of Simon Shuller, one of Philadelphia's biggest drug lords. But their plans are spoiled when one of Shuller's men catches them as they break into the stash house." 257 pp. ISBN: 9780446581691.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)

    Book ID: 55611
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