The menacing phone calls from a maniacally laughing stranger haunt Seattle private eye Thomas Black as he lies partially paralyzed in the hospital - plagued with memory loss and a monstrous sense of doom. Black must piece together the shards of an investigation that nearly killed him. And through the haze of nightmarish recollection, he starts to remember.... A curious couple offers Black a strange proposal: play guardian angel to an unlikely stalking victim - Billy Battle, a brooding ex-con with a psychotic history of ...
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The menacing phone calls from a maniacally laughing stranger haunt Seattle private eye Thomas Black as he lies partially paralyzed in the hospital - plagued with memory loss and a monstrous sense of doom. Black must piece together the shards of an investigation that nearly killed him. And through the haze of nightmarish recollection, he starts to remember.... A curious couple offers Black a strange proposal: play guardian angel to an unlikely stalking victim - Billy Battle, a brooding ex-con with a psychotic history of unproven murder and mayhem. Hot on Billy's crooked trail is the straight-arrow ex-neighbor who helped send him up the river, and who just may want Billy dead for his own peace of mind. Then the mysterious, diabolical laugher on the phone extends his campaign of terror to Thomas Black, convincing the wily P.I. that he's getting close to something. But exactly what, he doesn't know. As Black wades deeper into a secret world of sadistic murder and pure evil, he finds himself up against an adversary far deadlier than he had ever imagined. And Black can't help but wonder if the last, wicked laugh will be on him....
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Very Good. Signed 1st edition, 1st printing, Ballantine Books hardcover w/ DJ, 1994. Book is VG+ to Near Fine, w/ clean text, tight binding. DJ is Near Fine to FIne, in protective mylar. Signed by author on title page. Free delivery confirmation.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Signed by Author Hard Cover--VG/VG--INSCRIBED by author--Book and dustjacket are clean and bright with only slight wear--344 pages--Later printing with original price of 20.00 present.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a bit of lamination rubbing on three inches of the spine. A Thomas Black mystery.
