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The Big Killing
by Wilson, Robert
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0002325225
- ISBN 13
- 9780002325226
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: Harper Collins Publishers. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. 0002325225 . 304 p. 22 cm. Sound and square binding, in burgundy cloth-covered boards. Minor wear to the corners. Edges of the text block are lightly tanned. Inside pages are clean and unmarked, with a hint of toning. Dustwrapper has minor edge wear, with one corner having a tiny bit of paper loss. Lightly rubbed. The second novel by Robert Wilson, featuring Bruce Medway and his detection work in Benin, West Africa. .
Synopsis
In this second novel of the Bruce Medway series, our hero, a go-between and "fixer" for traders in steamy West Africa, smells trouble when a porn merchant asks him to deliver a video at a secret location. Things look up, though, when he's hired to act as minder to Ron Collins, a spoiled playboy looking for diamonds in the Ivory Coast. Medway thinks this could be the answer to his cashflow crisis. But when the video delivery leads to a shootout and the discovery of a mutilated body, he wants out. Obligations keep Medway fixed in the Ivory Coast and he is soon caught up in a terrifying cycle of violence. Unless he can get to the bottom of the mystery, Medway knows that for the savage killer out there in the African night, he is the next target.
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- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 949
- Title
- The Big Killing
- Author
- Wilson, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0002325225
- ISBN 13
- 9780002325226
- Publisher
- Harper Collins Publishers
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- 0002325225
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mysteries;
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- Jacket
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- Good+
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- Text Block
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- Edges
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- Fine
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- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- First Edition
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