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BACKLASH **SIGNED COPY**
by Gosling, Paula
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0385249950
- ISBN 13
- 9780385249959
- Seller
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Warwick, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 1989. 1st. Edition, June 1989. bound in original publisher's red cloth with black lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket.Slight spine slant, top of page edges spotted else about fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover, minor nicks to top and bottom of spine. INSCRIBED by author on title page. "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." -- Publishers Weekly . Inscribed By the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.
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- Bookseller
- Murder By The Book
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017259
- Title
- BACKLASH **SIGNED COPY**
- Author
- Gosling, Paula
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385249950
- ISBN 13
- 9780385249959
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- STRYKER JACK FICTITIOUS CHARACTER FICTION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Police Procedural;
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About the Seller
Murder By The Book
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About Murder By The Book
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