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The Devil's Backbone
by Robert Greer
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good (ex-library)/Good
- ISBN 10
- 089296653X
- ISBN 13
- 9780892966530
- Seller
-
Traralgon, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Mysterious Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Good (ex-library)/Good. Hardcover. 352 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Mysterious Press, 1998. First Edition. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in good (ex-library) condition and comes in good dust jacket. More specifically: Ex-library with usual marks, stamps, stickers. Edges of boards have superficial edgewear and corners are lightly bumped. Spine has minor lean. Dust jacket has light creasing. Edges of dust jacket have light bumping and superficial wear. Dust jacket is unclipped. Dust jacket is protected in clear, plastic sleeve. Edges of pages are lightly browned. Pages are lightly tanned and lightly creased. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: There were only two things that terrified retired black rodeo star and all-around gadfly Hambone Dolbey. One of them was water. So when Hambone's lifeless body was found floating in a wet suit, those who knew him best knew for sure that the cowboy had been murdered. Two of them, a deaf-mute old rodeo clown and a former bull rider, ask CJ Floyd to find the killer. CJ has just chased down a rail-thin bail-jumper named Bobby Two-Shirts, earning himself a $3,000 finder's fee, a vicious bite, and a new enemy: Bobby's beautiful, long-legged sister. Driving bare-breasted through the desert heat, she is in hot pursuit of the man who put her brother away. Now CJ has to watch his back and his front. He discovers Hambone Dolbey's colorful career included a kinky, forbidden, and potentially dangerous affair, and unearths a trail of deals and greed pointing to the mountainous land mass known as the Devil's Backbone. But while CJ hunts a murderer who has already struck twice, Bobby Two-Shirts's sister is laying a trap... *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Crime; ISBN: 089296653X. ISBN/EAN: 9780892966530. Inventory No: 20041017.. 9780892966530
Synopsis
Robert Greer lives in Denver where he is a practicing surgical pathologist, research scientist, and professor of pathology and medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. He edits the High Plains Literary Review and review books for KUVO, a Denver NPR affiliate. Learn more about Robert Greer at www.robertgreerbooks.com.
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Details
- Seller
- Manyhills Books
(AU)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 20041017
- Title
- The Devil's Backbone
- Author
- Robert Greer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good (ex-library)
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 089296653X
- ISBN 13
- 9780892966530
- Publisher
- Mysterious Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- BZDB5 Fiction; The Devil's Backbone
- Bookseller catalogs
- Crime; Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Manyhills Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Manyhills Books
Biblio member since 2009
Traralgon, Victoria
About Manyhills Books
Manyhills Book Store stocks New, Unread, Collectible and Used books.
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