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Crais, Robert : Hostage

Doubleday, New York City, NY, 2001

ISBN 0385495854

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 373 pages. The author's tenth novel. One of Robert Crais' finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Robert Crais' "Hostage". As in hostage-taking. "In a sleepy suburb north of Los Angeles, a convenience-store robbery turns violent. With the police on their tail, three criminals flee the scene and invade a home in an exclusive gated community, taking captive a panicked father and his two children. Police chief Jeff Talley, a former hostage negotiator with the LAPD's SWAT Unit, is now thrown back into the high-pressure world that he has so desperately tried to leave behind. But Talley's nightmare has barely begun" (Publisher's blurb). The basis of the riveting film adaptation by Florent Emilio-Siri, with Bruce Willis and Ben Foster. Robert Crais wrote the screenplay himself. That should be a piece of cake: His previous career as the screenwriter for the long-running television series, "Hill Street Blues" and "L. A. Law", has served Robert Crais well in his second career as a serious mystery/thriller writer. An absolute "must-have" title for Robert Crais collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Robert Crais. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is now collectible. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. One of the finest American novelists of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ROBERT CRAIS TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0385495854.

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CRAIS**, ROBERT: : HOSTAGE

LONDON.ORION BOOKS,2001.

ISBN 0752841823.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj panels+ spine/backstrip with white+red lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges lightly aged/toned but generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,so appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain lilac cloth boards with bright, crisp,stamped silver gilt letters to spine /backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2-373pp [paginated] includes a prologue,Pts 1-5 comprising 29 chapters in total,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,individual Pts separator pages and 4pp blanks at the rear of the book. Author's 10th novel and a stand-alone thriller with a southern California setting. Jeff Talley was a good husband,a fine father,and a frontline negotiator with LAPD's SWAT unit.But the high-stress, unforgiving job took an unbearable toll. After he fails to prevent a despondent father from killing his wife and son and then himself,Talley hits bottom.His own marriage ends,he resigns from SWAT,and takes the chief-of-police job in a sleepy affluent commuter district far from the chaos and crime of Los Angeles.Maybe here he can escape his former life. But Talley's pursuit of a peaceful small- town existence is interrupted when three young men,fleeing the robbery of a mini- mart,burst into a house,and take the family hostage.Plunged back into the high-pressure world that he has desperately been trying to put behind him, Talley finds his nightmare has barely begun,because his just isn't any house.It belongs to a brilliant,white-collar criminal who launders money for L.A'.s renegade Mafia family. And the accountant's records of the incriminating moneytrail that lie within will put L.A.'s most lethal and volatile crime lord,Sonny Benza,behind bars for life.As Talley desperately tries to save the innocents inside,the full weight of Benza's wrath descends on him,putting Talley and his own family at risk.Soon,all involved are held hostage by fate and the only one capable of diffusing the crisis is the least stable of them all. Please contact seller,because of the weight and value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. UK,buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included or FREE. Available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to USA can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

Crais, Robert : Hostage

Doubleday, New York, New York, U.S.A., 2001

ISBN 0385495854

8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please email us if you would like further information or if you would like us to send you a picture of the book. Thanks for looking. Book Condition: Very Good +. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good +

First Edition 1st Printing
Signed by Author

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