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GANGSTER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's fourth book, one which captures the "gritty, frightening and conflicted world of organized crime - and the human beings who inhabit it - with honesty and depth." (Robert Crais) SIGNED on the title page. 376 pp. ISBN: 0-34540100X.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 75399More details Price: $30.00 -
SIX KEY CUT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atheneum, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - A foray into crime fiction by the author of "Lords of the Plains", a Western set in his native Texas. By contrast, this is an extremely violent book set in the seamy underside of Miami. "A clever scheme to steal drugs from Colombian racketeers makes it necessary for two young people to fake their own deaths to avoid retribution. Their bungled attempt, which requires the dead bodies of two derelicts, sets off a series of events involving wealthy New Yorkers, corrupt cops, vengeful winos, and maddened mobsters. The action moves through alleys, bars, and mansions, creating en route a string of corpses." (Reed) 224 pp. ISBN: 0-689117787.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 92730More details Price: $17.50 -
NAPLES 1343: The Unexpected Origins of the Mafia.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (ARC, trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 91910More details Price: $21.50 -
BLOOD SALT WATER.
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Very good in a very good dust jacket (corners slightly bumped)
Book ID: 91014More details Price: $18.50 -
CITY ON FIRE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2022) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel in an epic new crime trilogy, set in New England in the 1980s and focusing on Danny Ryan, and themes of family, love, honour, loyalty and betrayal amongst the Irish and Italian mobsters who have until now co-existed peacefully in Providence, Rhode Island. A contemporary retelling of the Iliad. 371 pp. ISBN: 978-0062851192.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 89012More details Price: $24.50
