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Backlash
by Paula Gosling (1939- )
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good to fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0385249950
- ISBN 13
- 9780385249959
- Seller
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
191 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's red cloth with black lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. Inscribed on the title by the author. First American edition. In a city called Grantham, a sniper kills police officers and escapes each time without a trace. Lt. Jack Stryker and the other detectives are at an impasse when Dana Marchant from the Justice Department arrives at police headquarters to investigate the murder of an undercover FBI agent. Sharing information with Dana, Stryker and his partner keep the computer hopping as they look for clues in the lives of the victims, but then the two men are wounded by the ghostly shooter and temporarily sidelined. Later there is a showdown in which Dana shines at canny sleuthing and hand-to-hand combat. The author tries for realism with details about the cops' romances and intense friendships. Condition: Inscription to title. Light edge wear. Jacket with crease to front fold over flap else very good to fine in a near fine jacket.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- L1116
- Title
- Backlash
- Author
- Paula Gosling (1939- )
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good to fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0385249950
- ISBN 13
- 9780385249959
- Publisher
- A Crime Club Book Published by Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York, London, Toronto, Sydney and Auckland
- Date Published
- 1989
- Pages
- 191 pages
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Mystery
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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