New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this Scottish playwright, set in the 19th-century American Southwest, a setting filled with thieves, Native Americans, and former Civil War soldiers. Missy is a nickname for opium, and this is the story of Dol McQueen, a brassy teenage prostitute struggling to hang on to a fortune in stolen opium. 295 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 9780374199838.

New York: Warner, (1987). First edition - Thriller the intelligence agent known only as Sawyer. "Code-named Dragonfire, Sawyer's mission is to trade the guns needed by the Khmer Resistance for a billion dollars in pure morphine base. So begins a desperate journey from the deadly underworldof Bangkok's teeming waterfront to the forbidden hill country of the Golden Triangle, an exotic world of rival warlords, opium smugglers, and savage tribesmen, a world where violence rules and anything is permitted." 332 pp.