New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin (1981)

First Edition. Signed.

Very good in dust jacket with some rubbing and mild edge wear near the top spine.

In this novel of menace and eroticism, Richard Ford updates the tradition of Conrad for the age of cocaine smuggling. The setting is Oaxaca, Mexico, where Harry Quinn has come to free his girlfriend's brother, Sonny, from Jail and, ideally, to get him away form the suavely sadistic drug dealer who suspects Sonny of having cheated