Print the Legend

E-382: Minotaur Books. Very Good. 2010. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Minotaur Books, New York, 2010. 342 pgs. Signed and inscribed by Craig McDonald on the title page. With a laid in signed, limited short story chap book by the author "Colt" number 175 of 250 copies! First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Four years after the death of Ernest Hemingway, raffish crime novelist, Hollywood script doctor, ladies’ man, and Hemingway confidant Hector Lassiter is in Sun Valley, Idaho, to address a Hemingway conference. He’s also there to assist Papa’s widow, Mary, in preparing Papa’s unpublished work for publication. Hector is also feeling his years, and, as Hemingway before him, he’s worried about his “long game, ” his own literary legacy. But he quickly realizes that he’s being followed by several different men. One of them is Donovan Creedy, an FBI agent who reports directly to J. Edgar Hoover. Creedy seems to have gone fully around the bend; he’s determined to destroy Papa’s legacy and kill Hector. Legacy be damned! Hector must save “his craft. ” McDonald began his Lassiter series with Head Games (2007) , a good-natured romp. Toros & Torsos (2008) was richer and darker. Print the Legend is darker still. Literary criticism and professors repeatedly get jabbed, but McDonald saves his knockout punch for Hoover, whose harassment of writers such as Hemingway and Steinbeck continued for decades. EB; 6.48 X 1.325 X 8.57 inches; 352 pages; Signed by Author .