"A wonderful and unique mixture of smart crime novel, a classy love story, . and a hard vision of the Southwest. I loved it from beginning to end." James Crumley Jerri Johnson is a P.I. in San Antonio Texas, tracking down bail jumpers and serving subpoenas, when her old lover Vincent Fuentes is released from prison and tries to draft her into a plot to smuggle guns over the border. Her friend Joe Parr, an aging Texas Ranger haunted by the ghost of his dead wife, tries his best to keep Jerri out of trouble, but he knows it's ...
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"A wonderful and unique mixture of smart crime novel, a classy love story, . and a hard vision of the Southwest. I loved it from beginning to end." James Crumley Jerri Johnson is a P.I. in San Antonio Texas, tracking down bail jumpers and serving subpoenas, when her old lover Vincent Fuentes is released from prison and tries to draft her into a plot to smuggle guns over the border. Her friend Joe Parr, an aging Texas Ranger haunted by the ghost of his dead wife, tries his best to keep Jerri out of trouble, but he knows it's a losing proposition...and that this time, it might be a lot more than her heart that gets broken."Jim Sanderson has a particular talent for building an intricate plot into a solid pattern of complex human relationships." Texas Observer "A crime novel that's also a love story and a tough view of the Southwest," Albuquerque Journal "Grit and grace in the face of troubling ambiguities in a moral borderland." Publishers Weekly PRAISE FOR JIM SANDERSON: "Sanderson makes the gritty, thankless landscape of the border come alive, from the relentless heat to the failed hopes." The Washington Post "Sanderson is especially good at contrasting the clarity and austere natural beauty of the Chihuahuan desert with the murky, Orson Welles aura that envelopes human society there." Dallas Morning News
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. CL5-A first edition first printing hardcover book SIGNED and inscribed by author to previous owner on the title page in very good condition and very good dust jacket. Book has foxing on the top page edges, dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. 8.75"x5.5", 224 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.
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Like New. This book is inscribed by the author on the title page and is a stated first edition with full number line. The binding is in good shape. There is very little shelf wear. The pages of this book are clean and unmarked. A good solid copy. FAST SHIPPING & FREE TRACKING!
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Fine in Fine jacket. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. Although not marked in any way, this copy is from the distinguished modern first edition collection of Bruce Kahn.
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Fine in Fine jacket. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed and numbered 614/2000 by the author. Although not marked in any way, this copy is from the distinguished modern first edition collection of Bruce Kahn.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book. Signed by Author(s) Signed by Author(s) 0826321917 First edition. First printing. NOT inscribed, NOT REMAINDER marked. NOT ex library. Not Book Club. Signed on the title page. Securely wrapped and shipped in a box. Fine/Fine.
