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London, United Kingdom: Michael Joseph Limited, 1997. First edition, black boards, backstrip gilt lettered, book fine , dustjacket, fine. SIGNED by Dick Francis on the title-page. "...takes its young hero from horse racing to the far rougher world of British politics. Benedict Juliard may be just a boy--he's only 18 when his father arranges for him to be fired from his job as an amateur jockey so Ben can campaign at his side in a Parliamentary by- election--but his talent for listening to people and drawing them out is such a complement to George Juliard's mastery of big- picture rhetoric that he's an unexpected asset on the campaign trail. Unexpected and unwelcome..." Kirkus. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.: Univ of New Mexico Pr, 1992. A novel about politics amd romance as the new Southwest opens before hungry eyes. 1st Ed. DJ has small rubbings on top and spine, else, tight and clean.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Morrow/Avon, 1983. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Light soiling at page edges else near fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. A Fiona Fitzgerald novel of homicide and Washington politics. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: St Martin , 1988. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. California politics and Hollywood's glamour set collide. "Son of a dashing old movie star, Jon Storm is an ex-cop from L.A. who has been living in self-imposed exile on the west coast of Mexico since a bum rap forced him to resign from the force. Upon learning that his longtime best friend and former partner has died in the line of duty while protecting a candidate for the Senate during an assassination attempt, Storm returns to California to investigate. The candidate, another childhood friend, is a '60s radical married to a character who seems modeled after both Linda Ronstadt and Jane Fonda. Storm's undercover search brings to light a series of murders and uncovers a Soviet plot to place an agent in the White House. Hansl (Sunstroke), depicts an assortment of Southern California habitats, from wealthy movie enclaves to biker… Read More

NY.NY: Knopf, 1975. First edition, so stated. Extremities are sunned, else very good-near fine copy in dust jacket with 2" closed tear at front, a couple of chips out, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Higgins tries on a new territory - this time crime and mayhem walk the halls of Washington poltical venues.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Henry Holt & Company, LLC, 1995. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. A Lt. Hastings title.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Mysterious Press, 1990. 2nd edition with complete number line beginning with 2. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Originally published in 1953 when Vidal had been blacklisted and needed a new name to write under. Highly respected United States Senator Leander Rhodes asks Manhattan based public relations expert Peter Sargent to visit him at his home. He wants Peter to help him develop his PR plan for his run for the presidency and to stay on staff to work the media. However, the night before Rhodes is to announce his candidacy, someone murders the senator in his bed. Out of work at least as a presidential candidate's publicist, Sargent investigates who killed the respected reactionary politician. 2nd Ed. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Mysterious Press, 1990. 2nd edition with complete number line beginning with 2. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Originally published in 1953 when Vidal had been blacklisted and needed a new name to write under. Highly respected United States Senator Leander Rhodes asks Manhattan based public relations expert Peter Sargent to visit him at his home. He wants Peter to help him develop his PR plan for his run for the presidency and to stay on staff to work the media. However, the night before Rhodes is to announce his candidacy, someone murders the senator in his bed. Out of work at least as a presidential candidate's publicist, Sargent investigates who killed the respected reactionary politician. 2nd Ed. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY: Ballantine Books, 2002. HAMMETT NOMINEE. Danny Cray, a painter and amateur sleuth tries to protect the reputation of a wealth Washington lawyer. 1ST Ed. F/F. 1st Ed. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

N.Y.: St. Martins, 1992. 1st edition, February 1992 with complete number line beginning with 1. Top of page edges lightly stained else Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. ; Washington, D.C. locale; a Richard Michaelson title. "Government jargon and covert action abound in this nicely detailed, intriguing tale about the possibilities of rigging elections via computer. Seeing surprise on the face of the doctor who administers the fatal injection to the first man put to death by the U.S. government in more than a generation, a reporter asks officials what was unusual about the execution. Her queries reverberate to the FBI, a special assistant to the President and a public relations consultant to a Japanese company that specializes in computer applications. Headed by former diplomat Richard Michaelson (last seen in Washington Deceased ), a commission is formed to determine if the execution was bungled and why. The investigation follows a circuitous route pointing… Read More

London: Macmillian Publishing Co,, 1988. 1st ed., fine in jacket, his 3rd book. Derek Thyrde, a junior Whip in the House of Lords, discovers a Cabinet Minister is a blackmailer and is planning to take over the government by violent means. Together with Camberley Roberts, who tells him she is a police officer, he sets out to show his fellow politicians the truth. The author, Lord Denham, is the Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon 1989, 1989. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED and DATED 10/14/89, year of publication at front free end paper. "Three compelling plot lines are woven into a tautly drawn suspense novel by the author of Chiefs ; not a whodunit or a howdunit, but a how-does-it-all-connect. After years as chief of staff for a venerable Georgia senator, Will Lee decides to run for the seat himself when a stroke cripples his mentor. Standing in his way are an ambitious governor in the Democratic primary and, possibly, a far-right fundamentalist in the general election. In addition, Will must interrupt his campaign to serve as the defense lawyer in a controversial race-murder trial, while elsewhere, a dedicated ex-cop pursues the head of a Klan-like vigilante group that's been carrying out gangland-style killings." -- PW . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY,NY.: Simon & Schuster, 1989. 1st. Ed. FINE/NEAR FINE. By the author of " Chiefs " This is a story of a politcal battle in Northern Georgia that soon turns into dirty, deadly politics. DJ shows minimal wear, else fine.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Random House, 1988. 1st edition, so stated. . About fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. 675 pages. Colorado congressman Evan Kendrick is trying to live out his term of office quietly—when a political mole reveals to the world Kendrick's deepest secret...that Kendrick was the anonymous man in Masqar, the man who courageously freed the hostage held in the American embassy by Arab terrorists; the unknown hero who performed an act of outrageous daring then silently disappeared. Now, suddenly, Kendrick is a living target pursued by the terrorists he outwitted. Together with the beautiful woman who once saved his life, Kendrick enters a deadly arena where the only currency is blood, where frightened whispers speak of violence yet to come and where Kendrick's life—and the fate of the free world—may ultimately rest in the powerful hands of a mysterious and deadly figure known only as the Mahdi. . 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near… Read More

Harper Collins, 1992. 1st ed., fine in dj. Author's 1st book. American biologist David Trowbrdge's attempt to establish a wildlife park in Nepal runs afoul of the political agenda of Nepal's powerful neighbors, China and India in this suspense thriller.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

NY. NY: HarperCollins, 2000. 1st. Ed. with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover.. A BARRY AWARD NOMINEE. A solid courtroom scene shown by a brilliant writer who cleverlly takes us through the backstreets of politics in our national capitol.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Pocket Books, 1994. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. Publishers notices laid-in. Eager to expand his reach, publisher Thurman Boucher paid an obscene amount of money for the Cambridge Daily Banner, a flyweight local paper. But when he ignores his side of the bargain and blue-pencils the masthead, he sends the former owner, Linda Cushing, down a road of depression that ends in death. Although the headlines indicate that it's a cut-and-dried suicide, one of Linda's life-long friends doesn't buy the story, and enlists Bethany to do some freestyle investigative reporting. A former college wrestler, Vietnam vet, and reluctant hero-for-hire, Bethany's always willing to go a few bouts for a good cause. Soon he body-presses his way into the newspaper arena, as Boucher's new right-hand man. As skilled at negotiation as he is at seduction, Boucher presides over an impressive media empire. His peers call him the Cobra, and his sexually voracious wife, Alison, is the… Read More

N.Y.: Dodd, Mead, 1978. 1st edition, with complete number line beginning with 1. Near fine in near fine dust jacket, lightly rubbed, not price clipped, $6.95 intact, in protective mylar cover. fficial Washington was stunned by the news of workers' uprising in Poland. Did it mean that the Russian army would return to smash the rebellion? For political reasons as well as for reasons of state, it was vitally important that the President have the answer as soon as possible. But who would find out the Soviet Union's plans in time - Paul Dober, a top CIA agent in Warsaw, or Leo Farel, a scholarly Kremlinologist in New York City? Dober, experienced and ruthless, depended on informers, knowing that they could betray him at any moment, knowing too that his career was at stake. Farel had his own techniques for finding out Soviet secrets, methods that were mistrusted by many in the government because he was an outsider. And now, despite the urgency of his task, he was distracted by a murder case in… Read More

N.Y.: St. Martin's, 1994. 1st edition, December 1994, so stated A very faint stain at page edges, else fine in unclipped dust jacket. A SHAMUS AWARD NOMINEE for Best Private Eye Novel of the Year. A Milan Jacovich title; Cleveland locale. "Milan's latest case has him paying back a long overdue favor to Mob boss Victor Gaimari. Even though Milan dislikes Gaimari, the mobster once helped him save a kid's life, so when Gaimari asks Milan to head out to the posh suburb of Lake Erie Shores to make sure the mayoral election goes smoothly, Milan can hardly say no. Ostensibly, he's supposed to play bodyguard, political adviser, and baby-sitter to Barbara Corns, who's running for mayor on a "Back to Basics" theme. Milan can't believe the candidate is in any danger, especially in such a white-bread-and-mayonnaise town. But there's more to the story than Victor has let on, and after the wife of Barbara's opponent is killed, Milan figures he had better put… Read More

Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Co., 1945. 2nd printing, December 1945. Tower Books (T-321) (originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1942). Pages browning as usual, very light wear, near fine in dust jacket, light wear at head and foot of spine, light edge wear. Jacket design by Adler & Lubalin. "A tense, swift story of raw passions and political corruption by the master of the hard-boiled novel." [front jacket]. 2nd Ed. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book.