Being a detective is a lot like trying to hit a piata in the dark, as evidenced in this novel about family, politics, and the devastating effects of tequila on a private detective's investigative abilities. "Greasing the Piata" is the third novel in the Cape Weathers series.
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Being a detective is a lot like trying to hit a piata in the dark, as evidenced in this novel about family, politics, and the devastating effects of tequila on a private detective's investigative abilities. "Greasing the Piata" is the third novel in the Cape Weathers series.
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Former library book with the usual stamps, stickers and labels. The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact (including the dust cover, if applicable). Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.
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Very Good jacket. First Edition. First edition. Very Good in Very Good unclipped dust jacket. Gently used with NO markings in text; binding is tight. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by author on title page (signature only). 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. As new. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 333 p. Cape Weathers Mysteries (Hardcover). Audience: General/trade. By the Macavity Award-winning author of 'Beating the Babushka' and 'Stealing the Dragon'. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a protective mylar sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.
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As New in As New dust jacket. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Medium blue boards and spine imprinted in gold with title and author. SIGNED by the AUTHOR on the title page. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. 333 pages. A Cape Weathers Mystery, No. 3. Signed by Author. A former U.S. Senator vanishes days after his son goes missing. When theyare both found dead on a golf course, body parts missing, in Mexico, the Senatoras estranged daughter Rebecca resolves to discover what happened. Private investigator Cape Weathers doesnat really want the case. He canat stand politicians and doesnat know the terrain. But when it looks like the daughter may become the next victim, Cape crosses the border looking for answers. Cape asks his deadly companion Sally, trained by the Hong Kong Triads, to watch his back as he stumbles onto a conspiracy that leads from corporate boardrooms in San Francisco to strongholds in Mexico. Together they confront a killer determined to bury the past along with anyone trying to dig it up. Miles away from home and nowhere near finding the answers, Cape manages to get kidnapped, steal from the mob, piss off the DEA, alienate the local police, confound a computer genius, and somehow lose the client heas been protecting all along. Greasing the PiAata is a novel about family, politics, and the devastating effects of tequila on a private detectiveas investigative abilities.
