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HARD TIME
by Paretsky, Sara
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in dust jacket, has been read
- ISBN 10
- 0385313632
- ISBN 13
- 9780385313636
- Seller
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Los Altos Hills, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Delacorte/Random House, 1999. Hardcover. Very Good in dust jacket, has been read. octavo. First Edition Signed, dated, and inscribed by the author, "Mark, with thanks and good wishes,"; A V.I. Warshawski novel
Synopsis
Among the first, and perhaps the most compelling, female private investigators of contemporary fiction, Sara Paretsky's incomparable character V. I. Warshawski at last returns to the page in her first full-length appearance since 1994's Tunnel Vision. Hard Time is the work of a master--a riveting novel of suspense that is indisputably Paretsky's best V.I. Warshawski novel yet. Multimedia conglomerate Global Entertainment has purchased the Chicago Herald-Star, forcing the paper's staff to scramble to stay employed. Reporter Murray Ryerson, V.I.'s longtime friend and sometime rival, manages to reinvent himself as the host of a television show on Global's network. On her way home from a party celebrating Murray's debut, V.I. almost runs over a woman lying in the street. Stopping to help, V.I. soon learns that her Good Samaritan act will drop her squarely in a boiling intrigue. In a case that forces her to go head-to-head with one of the world's largest providers of private security and prison services, a case that exposes dark hidden truths behind the razzle-dazzle of the entertainment industry, V.I. will be ahead of the game if she gets out alive.
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Details
- Bookseller
- May Day Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 02050
- Title
- HARD TIME
- Author
- Paretsky, Sara
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in dust jacket, has been read
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0385313632
- ISBN 13
- 9780385313636
- Publisher
- Delacorte/Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed;
- Size
- octavo
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Los Altos Hills, California
About May Day Books
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