Description: D’ARTAGNAN BOOKS This is a signed first edition in good condition. It was published by Thomas Dunne Books in 2000. 'When we meet private detective Duncan Sloan he's just handed back a five thousand-dollar check meant as advance payment on a job. The wealthy prospective client wants Sloan to find a woman with an eyeball tattooed on her bottom. All he knows is the tattoo, that she's very young, white and probably somewhere in or near Orlando, Florida, Sloan's hometown. Thanks but no thanks; that's not enough. But when the five grand reappears in Sloan's mailbox, he uses it for a Costa Rican vacation and never mind the job. Pike, however tracks him down. When he explains the assignment, Sloan finds it bizarre enough to say 'yes'. Isaac Pike is the only son of a top-ranked tycoon. He is also gay. Because he genuinely wants to be a father, he has deposited sperm with a reputable clinic while he searches for a suitable mother. But a paroled convict working at the clinic steals the sperm, impregnates a teenager with it, and blackmails Pike - send money or we abort the child. Although Pike's idea of a suitable mother is not quite a waif from an Orlando trailer park, he is decent enough to be genuinely concerned about both mother and child. Sloan pursues the thief and his buddies and, he hopes, the girl, through the Florida city's sad neighborhoods and outlying cheap motels, calling on his drug-enhanced informers and a contact in the police. Getting closer brings him to the mangled bodies of the young mother-to-be's relatives, and closer to his own danger as well. On he goes - Duncan Sloan may be a reluctant detective, but when he's wound up he's hard to stop.' This is a 1st Edition / 1st Printing (The number string is: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1). Condition: Book - Good - rubbing/bumping/wear to corners and edges, a lean and crease to the spine, opens easily to a couple of pages, slight marking and discolouration to the page edges and soft tanning to the pages. Dust Jacket - Good - rubbing/bumping/wear to the corners and edges and slight marking, scratches, discolouration and creasing. The DJ is not price clipped. The DJ is in a protective plastic sleeve (non-adhesive). Photos/scans are always of the actual book for sale, and more can be supplied upon request. I specialise in First Editions and in particular Signed First Editions. Please visit my eBay shop as I have a large range of books and some interesting ephemera.Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions, especially about the displayed book or postage costs.I do combine P&P costs, and I do post Worldwide!
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Personalised: No
Binding: Hardback
Modification Description: Signed by Author
Language: English
Fiction Subject: Crime & Thriller
Signed: Yes
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
Author: Bob Truluck
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Modified Item: Yes
Character Family: Duncan Sloan
Year Printed: 2000
