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Condizione: FINE. First printing. Thriller featuring Lara Blackwood, a genetic engineering entrepreneur. When she receives a call from an old college friend asking her help in solving a ghastly epidemic in Tokyo, she agrees to help and, with a single phone call, sets in motion a chain of death and mayhem stretching from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., Amsterdam, and Japan. SIGNED on the title page with the words "Watch Your Back" and dated in the year of publication. Author's note. 367` pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Condizione: FINE. First printing. "The Nazi plunder of Europe's art and antiquities during WWII sets the stage for a thriller spun around a religious coverup so devastating it could topple the Vatican and crush Western religion. A dying, repentant Nazi, Willi Max, calls renowned American art broker/historian Zoe Ridgeway, to Switzerland, where he reveals his cache of looted treasure, hiring her to catalogue and return it to the owners or heirs. Shortly after she tells her husband, Seth--an ex-L.A. cop turned comparative religion professor at UCLA--about the exciting job, she is kidnapped from their Zurich hotel room." Perdue was sued by Random House when he claimed that Brown's Da Vinci Code plagairized two of his books. He lost the case, but did not have to pay their legal fees. SIGNED on the title page with the words "Watch Your Back." Author's note. 320 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. 291 pp. Light edgewear. Prev owner's address label on title page. Light shelfwear to covers. The terrorists had sworn to destroy the world, and out of the books Western man had written, they knew just how to do it! ;