"It's the heat that makes you crazy. I don't know what it is, but it works that way for man and animal alike. I've seen some peculiar things on a hot day too. I've seen a scorpion sting itself to death. It just keeps drivin' its tail into its body again and again. A little killer killing itself. And what a man'll do on a hot day. A man could get his self killed just for rubbing shoulders with another. . . ." A loner, a drifter, a gambler--John Stewart asks little of life. But when his '64 Mustang busts a radiator hose in ...
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"It's the heat that makes you crazy. I don't know what it is, but it works that way for man and animal alike. I've seen some peculiar things on a hot day too. I've seen a scorpion sting itself to death. It just keeps drivin' its tail into its body again and again. A little killer killing itself. And what a man'll do on a hot day. A man could get his self killed just for rubbing shoulders with another. . . ." A loner, a drifter, a gambler--John Stewart asks little of life. But when his '64 Mustang busts a radiator hose in the middle of the empty Nevada desert, he prays to God, Buddha, L. Ron. And rolls into the tiny town of Sierra. Where he finds . . . nothing. A gas station whose former owner is lying low in the cemetery. A strip of barren, dust-blown store fronts. A truck stop cafe with more flies than customers. Stewart wants out. Sucker-punched in a rigged poker game, he's got to get to Vegas to settle a debt. Or else. Then in walks Grace, a seductive knockout who can read fortunes in faces. In the next twenty-four hours, Stewart becomes ensnared in a web of dirty double-crosses, cold propositions, and desperate souls--deadly ground where murder is just one gasp away. A stunning, fast-paced novel, Stray Dogs unfolds with unrelenting tension, memorable characters, and shocking twists of plot. John Ridley has created a hypnotic story that is pure noir, from its first page until its shattering climax.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 8x5x0; The binding is tight, corners sharp. Text unmarked. Dj lightly shelf worn with scuffs, light soiling & small scratches. Dust jacket in a mylar cover.
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Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Uncorrected Proof in fine condition. Copy has sticker residue on rear paper wrap, only flaw. A Trued First Edition of Author's first book. Plain Paper Wraps. 168 p. Audience: General/trade.
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As New in As New jacket. An Unread Copy, As New/As New Dust Jacket. In a clear protective Brodart mylar cover. An excellent debut novel from the screenwriter and author of Love is a Racket and Nobody Smokes in Hell. John Stewart's 64' Mustang breaks a radiator hose in the middle of the Nevada desert: "Through the shimmering heat and plume of steam that rose up from under the Mustang's hood, the gas station looked like a mirage." So begins this dark humored noir mystery in the tradition of Jim Thompson. A thrilling debut novel that was turned into the Oliver Stone movie "U-Turn" (starring Sean Penn, and Nick Nolte, among others. )
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Fine. 0345413458. REVIEW COPY. (Publicity folder with several pages of publicity info laid-in) Fine in a fine dj. Author's FIRST book. Filmed as "U-Turn."
