Flood mark costello john (7 risultati)

Condizione: Very Good. None. 251 pages, trade size softcover proof, illustrated color wraps. Record # 407215.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. First edition, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. This is the first novel, written under a psuedonym, of Mark Costello, recently short-listed for the National Book Award for "Big If". The authenticity of George V. Higgins and the hipness of Carl Hiassen combine to galvanic effect in this debut police thriller of Boston in the sixties. An urban police thriller and first novel with a difference--literary smarts and the real inside skinny on big-city politics and crime fighting. New Year's Day, 1965. The body of Father George Sedgewick is discovered on a snow-covered runway of Logan Airport, brutally murdered. No leads. Missing: four thousand hosts, blessed by the Pope, meant to be given out to the faithful at the first English-language mass in America later that year. Assigned to the case: Ray Dunn, rising young assistant district attorney, son of a corrupt cop. In another part of the city, legendary narcotics detective Manny Manning begins a desperate search for the shadowy source of deadly new heroin hitting the streets. This time Manny is determined to reach the top, but his adversary is cunning, brutal and branching out into a strange new drug called "acid". . . These quests for a killer and a dealer will intersect, unleashing the ghosts of the past and unlocking the secrets of Boston's most powerful institutions. Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. It is New Year's Day, 1965, and the body of Father George Sedgewick is discovered on a snow-covered runway of Logan Airport. Gone missing are four thousand communion hosts consecrated by Pope Paul VI, meant to be given out to the faithful at the first English-language mass in America later that year. Ray Dunn, a rising young assistant district attorney and the son of a corrupt cop, is assigned to the case. In another part of the city, legendary narcotics detective Manny Manning begins a desperate search for the shadowy source of deadly new heroin hitting the streets. This time Manny is determined to reach the top, but his adversary is cunning, brutal--and branching out into a strange drug called "acid." These quests for a killer and a dealer will intersect, unleashing the ghosts of the past and unlocking the secrets of Boston's most powerful institutions. Authentic, knowing, and bracingly cynical, Bag Men is a powerful thriller that will keep readers on the edge of their seats. Fine,first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket.{Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} MBS1.…

Condizione: FINE. First printing. The author's first novel, set in Boston in 1965, where the body of a murdered priest is found on a snow-covered runway and narcotics detective Manny Manning is searching for the source of a deadly heroin that has hit the streets - and of a new drug called 'acid.' The author, a native of Boston and a federal prosecutor, wrote his second book, the National Book award nominee ,'The Big If' ,under his own name. Near fine in fine dust jacket. (prev owner's address sticker on front free endpaper.). …

Hardcovers. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. First edition, first prnt. Quarter cloth and paper-covered boards. Signed by Flood (as "John Flood) and also as "M. Costello." Cloth spine ends minimally pushed; otherwise, in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Costello's first book. Blurbs by Colin Harrison and Scott Turow. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcovers. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. First edition, first prnt. Signed by Flood (as "John Flood") on the title page. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Costello's first novel. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. Although not marked in any way, this copy is from the distinguished modern first edition collection of Bruce Kahn.