New York: Poseidon Press, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel (preceded by a collection of short stories), centering around the lives of some of the few remaining residents of the town of Centralia, Pennsylvania where an underground mine fire has been burning since 1962. A combination of the "everyday ordinary and the outrageously surreal." (Susan Kenney.) Dust jacket praise also from John Barth and Edward Albee. 265 pp. ISBN: 0-671-72715X.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (short closed tear to fold of flap of dj with some associated creasing.)
London: Bantam, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first thriller, a story of deceit, double-crossing, and unending action and violence, set in the world of British spymasters, Swiss banking, and Russian oligarchs and gangsters, and introducing Samuel Carver, a former British Marine and a hitman who sees himself as "a good guy who makes bad things happen to bad people. Called to do a hit at very short notice, he believes the target to be a high-ranking Pakistani terrorist. The job is to organise a car crash in a Paris underpass. But Carver is being set up and when he discovers the truth it puts his life in real danger." A book which conjectures what might…
London: Bantam, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first thriller, a story of deceit, double-crossing, and unending action and violence, set in the world of British spymasters, Swiss banking, and Russian oligarchs and gangsters, and introducing Samuel Carver, a former British Marine and a hitman who sees himself as "a good guy who makes bad things happen to bad people. Called to do a hit at very short notice, he believes the target to be a high-ranking Pakistani terrorist. The job is to organise a car crash in a Paris underpass. But Carver is being set up and when he discovers the truth it puts his life in real danger." A book which conjectures what might have been behind Princess Diana's death (although she is not named) SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 414 pp. ISBN: 978-0593058053.