2014, ISBN: 9780312017330

Gebundene Ausgabe, Erstausgabe

N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 1988. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY. Signed… Mehr…

N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 1988. 1st edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY. Signed "Best Wishes / Eugne Izzi at front free endpage. His 2nd book. "Izzi's debut in The Take was enthusiastically praised, and his second novel deserves more praise for its fully dimensional characters, wicked wit and heady pace. Set in Chicago, the action starts and never lags when Sgt. Jimbo Marino, as an undercover detective, comes up with evidence against the mob. Unfortunately, the city politicos, avid for publicity, insist that Jimbo appear on a TV-news program while they boast of his success. That means GiGi Parnell, the worst of the bad guys, recognizes the detective who had sent him to prison 10 years earlier. Now free, GiGi is bent on vengeance, robbing and killing former pals who betrayed him, all the while making plans to murder Jimbo..." ---PW . Izzi died mysteriously in 1996. This from an article 'The Strange Death of Eugene Izzi' by Max Booth III, August 21, 2014 at Litreactor dot com --- " All signs were pointing toward a rather successful career as a crime novelist, so it was a pretty big surprise when Izzi was discovered hanging from his writing office on December 7th, 1996. Although he’d been on antidepressants and was seeing a therapist, the details of Izzi’s death seemed curious enough to warrant further investigation. After all, why would somebody kill themselves while wearing a bulletproof vest, or carrying brass knuckles and a can of Mace? This was a man who hated public appearances---despised book signings. So why such a public display? Even stranger, police also discovered countless notes Izzi had documented of threatening phone calls he’d received. Apparently, Izzi had infiltrated an Indiana militia group to help research his current work-in-progress. Before his death, Izzi had approached a retired Chicago cop about these threats. He even let him listen to his voicemail; on it, a woman said "he’d been found guilty" and that "he’d be dead by hanging by the end of the year". Which is, you know, exactly how Eugene Izzi died. But here’s the weirdest goddamn detail about all of this: along with everything else, police also found three computer disks containing his latest work-in-progress. An eight hundred page manuscript that included a scene of a Chicago mystery writer who, equipped with both Mace and brass knuckles, is thrown from a fourteenth-floor window with a noose around his neck. Who does the throwing? Well, Indiana militiamen, of course.".... Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book., St. Martin's Press, 1988, 5<

1988, ISBN: 9780312017330

Gebundene Ausgabe, Erstausgabe

St martin's Press, 1988. 1st edition. SIGNED, with long dedication. Jimbo Marino, a tough Chicago cop on an undercover assignment in the Mob, confronts and old nemesis, Gigi Parnell,… Mehr…

St martin's Press, 1988. 1st edition. SIGNED, with long dedication. Jimbo Marino, a tough Chicago cop on an undercover assignment in the Mob, confronts and old nemesis, Gigi Parnell, a vicious psychopath. Hardback. fine hardcover copy in a fine dustwrapper,., St martin's Press, 1988, 5<