DIA DE LOS MUERTOS **SIGNED COPY**

Tucson: AZ: Dennis McMillan, 1997. First edition, December 1997, so stayted with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine, unread copy in dust jacket. not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY. Signed by author Kent Harrington directly on the half-title page. Dust jacket and interior art work by Scott Musgrove. The publisher calls this ".a book that is as close to the "essential" noir novel as I've ever read." Calhoun is an American drug agent working in Tijuana, indulging in the excesses and corruption of that Mexican border town. He supplements his income - and tries to to cover his losses at the dog track - by smuggling illegal aliens across the border into California. His partner of choice is a Mexican federal cop. His partner of necessity is a well-bred, young, violent British fixer. The pressure on Calhoun mounts as he's "hired" to mule a group of Chinese girls across the border; unknown to him the girls have ingested balloons of heroin. He reunites with an American girl who started his downward spiral in California, pledging to get her back across the border along with a Chilean family and a 500 lb. Mexican crime lord. Everything comes to a head on Mexico's Dia de los Muertes - the Day of the Dead.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Musgrove, Scott. Book.