Size: 6x1x9; The binding is clean and tight with minor shelf wear. Light wear

Size: 6x1x9; The binding is clean and tight with minor shelf wear. Light wear and soiling to edges of text block. Small stain at bottom corner of rear pastedown. Text is unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover.

New York. 1998. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn

New York. 1998. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 0375402233. 337 pages. hardcover. Jacket photograph (armadillo): Corbis-Bettmann. Jacket design and illustration by Barbara de Wilde. keywords: Europe Scotland Literature World Literature. DESCRIPTION-From the acclaimed author of Brazzaville Beach and The Blue Afternoon, a new novel, set in present-day London, which demonstrates the superbly plotted storytelling that has earned William Boyd his reputation as a writer whose ' eccentric wit and restless intelligence exert a powerful appeal' (New York Times Book Review). One cold winter's morning, Lorimer Black-insurance adjuster, young, good-looking, on the rise-goes out on a perfectly ordinary business appointment, finds a hanged man and realizes that his life is about to be turned upside down. The elements at play: a beautiful actress glimpsed in a passing taxi. an odd new business associate whose hiring, firing and rehiring make little sense. a rock musician who is losing his mind-and a web of fraud in which virtually everyone Lorimer Black knows has been caught and in which he finds himself increasingly entangled. Boyd at his urbane and mesmerizing best. inventory #25885.

Hardcover in DJ; 337pp; DJ clean & bright, boards square, clean & bright,

Hardcover in DJ; 337pp; DJ clean & bright, boards square, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, as new, Fine/Fine condition. Thriller set in contemporary London. The novel was the basis for a three-part BBC/A&E television series shown in 2001.