This psychological thriller by the award-winning novelist James Magnuson combines the moral acuity of Graham Greene with the twists and turns of the best Hitchcock films. David Neisen came seeking reconciliation; what he found was a father's worst nightmare. Arriving on Christmas Eve to spend the holidays with his daughter Maya, he discovers her murdered on the floor of their cabin in the Wisconsin woods. He sees a ski-masked figure lurching through the snowdrifts behind the house and sets out in pursuit-only to transform ...
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This psychological thriller by the award-winning novelist James Magnuson combines the moral acuity of Graham Greene with the twists and turns of the best Hitchcock films. David Neisen came seeking reconciliation; what he found was a father's worst nightmare. Arriving on Christmas Eve to spend the holidays with his daughter Maya, he discovers her murdered on the floor of their cabin in the Wisconsin woods. He sees a ski-masked figure lurching through the snowdrifts behind the house and sets out in pursuit-only to transform himself into the prime suspect in his daughter's death. Struggling to elude his pursuers in the fierce Wisconsin winter, Neisen must deal first with the ghosts of his past-a childhood tragedy that binds him to the small-town sheriff, the friends of his youth who must now choose to shelter or betray him, and the unresolved mysteries about the munitions plant where his father worked during the Korean War. And looming above it all is his growing certainty that his daughter was not who he thought she was. The answers lie hidden in "this Midwestern world of farmers and sons and daughters of farmers with their Christian forbearance and Scandinavian silences, their delicate kindnesses, this Cold War world, this white-bread world. It receded like the Ice Age had receded, leaving behind its own rubble, its broken citadels and buried secrets ...
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Size: 9x6x1; Octavo, 9 1/4" tall, 273 pages, tan quarter-cloth with gilt title on spine. A near fine, clean, neat hard cover over all with little shelf wear but a slight bump to the top fore-edge, binding tight, paper cream white. In a near fine, clean dust jacket, with the original price present.
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Fine in near fine dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed 'To Lysley, all the best about your writing-I want to see some-all the best' by the author on the title page. Stated 1st edition, no number line (1st printing). Glued binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. Audience: General/trade. Dust jacket as new except for faint edgewear and a circular indentation that shows up with the light at certain angles. Book is as new. By the Texas Writer Award-winning author of 'Famous Writers I Have Known' and 'Windfall'. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page (signature only). Stated 1st edition, no number line (1st printing). Dust jacket and book as new. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 283 p. Audience: General/trade. A thriller by the Texas Writer Award-, Jesse Jones Award-, and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship-winning author of 'Famous Writers I Have Known' and 'Windfall. ' Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book. Signed by Author(s) First edition, first printing, hardcover. 273 pages. Fine in a fine, mylar-covered dust jacket. SIGNED (signature only) by the author on publisher's bookplate affixed to half-title page. "This psychological thriller by the award-winning novelist James Magnuson combines the moral acuity of Graham Greene with the twists and turns of the best Hitchcock films."
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Like New in Very Good+ jacket. Size: 9x6x1; Signed "James Magnuson" on title page. This psychological thriller by the award-winning novelist James Magnuson combines the moral acuity of Graham Greene with the twists and turns of the best Hitchcock films. David Neisen came seeking reconciliation; what he found was a father's worst nightmare. Arriving on Christmas Eve to spend the holidays with his daughter Maya, he discovers her murdered on the floor of their cabin in the Wisconsin woods. He sees a ski-masked figure lurching through the snowdrifts behind the house and sets out in pursuit-only to transform himself into the prime suspect in his daughter's death. Magnuson is the author of nine novels and numerous plays. Beyond this he has been awarded a National Endowment of the Arts fellowship and won the Jesse Jones Award from the Texas Institute of Letters. For the last 23 years Magnuson served as the director of the James A. Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin.
