New York: Viking, (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third of his novels featuring Los Angeles rare bookseller Jeffrey Dean, who has accepted a ghostwriting assignment for the prime minister of Singapore - but finds himself embroiled in an investigation into the illegal importation of jade to the US. INSCRIBED on the title page with the words "Now that you've been my friend for the bad times, stick around please for the good times," Robert Crais wrote a moving obiturary for his friend Wayne in which he commented that he wrote this book, his last one, while he was almost completely disabled and in constant pain. The good times never did come - but he never gave up. 151 pp. ISBN: 0-670833692.