Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 263 p. Audience: General/trade.

Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 263 p. Audience: General/trade.

Book. Signed by Author(s) Signed by Author(s) 0374211795 First edition. First

Book. Signed by Author(s) Signed by Author(s) 0374211795 First edition. First printing. NOT inscribed, NOT REMAINDER marked. NOT ex library. Not Book Club. Signed on the title page. Securely wrapped and shipped in a box. Fine/Fine.

New York. 1998. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in

New York. 1998. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0374211795. 264 pages. hardcover. Photograph Of Veiled Woman By Brad Wilson. Jacket Design By John Gall. Signed by the Author. keywords: Mystery India. DESCRIPTION-Micky Malone lives in Bethesda, dines at Taco Bell, takes a vacation only when he has to, and feels happiest when connected to the many gigabytes of his computer. When an unfortunate chain of events forces him to go on a business hip to Peshawar, an ‘unpleasant border town in the most troubled part of the troubled country of Pakistan, ' it doesn't take long for his worst fears about foreign destinations to come true, The Inter-Continental Hotel is comfortable enough, its Moghul Buffet lavish, but Malone cannot shake his growing fear that something really bad is about to happen to him, When it does, a mysterious message smeared in blood on the hotel's ice machine will be the only clue eager young Detective Iqbal has to go by, when he is dispatched from the capital to find out who killed the American. Soon, Iqbal is up to his modern, Western-educated ears in a bewildering maze of tribal rivalries, prostitution rings, turbulent mixed marriages, and warring European charity organizations. With his boss hounding him for results and his wife's militantly feminist best friend mocking his efforts, life is bad and about to get worse. A distraught American sister, a feudal princess, a bossy representative from the Women's Bureau-this wild frontier province maybe a man's world, but It's home to plenty of women ready to give Iqbal grief as his one isolated murder case turns into a string of killings. This is a book about East meeting West in noisy, head-on collisions; about sibling loyalty, desert latrines, soccer in Islam; and, most of all, about men, women, and justice. inventory #25857.