Shortly after the corpse of a young hitchhiker, apparently the victim of a hit-and-run driver, is found in a small Western town, the coroner who was to perform the autopsy is discovered dead and the corpse disappears
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My father was killed during World War II, shortly after I was born in 1943. My mother had difficulty raising me and at the same time holding a job, so she put me in an orphanage and later in a series of boarding homes. I grew up unsure of who I was, desperately in need of a father figure. Books and movies were my escape. Eventually I decided to be a writer and sought help from two men who became metaphorical fathers to me: Stirling Silliphant, the head writer for the classic TV series "Route 66" about two young men in a Corvette who travel America in search of themselves, and Philip Klass (whose pen name is William Tenn), a novelist who taught at the Pennsylvania State University where I went to graduate school from 1966 to 1970. The result of their influence is my 1972 novel, First Blood, which introduced Rambo. The search for a father is prominent in that book, as it is in later ones, most notably The Brotherhood of the Rose (1984), a thriller about orphans and spies. During this period, I was a professor of American literature at the University of Iowa. With two professions, I worked seven days a week until exhaustion forced me to make a painful choice and resign from the university in 1986. One year later, my fifteen-year-old son, Matthew, died from bone cancer, and thereafter my fiction tended to depict the search for a son, particularly in Fireflies (1988) and Desperate Measures (1994). To make a new start, my wife and I moved to the mountains and mystical light of Santa Fe, New Mexico, where my work changed yet again, exploring the passionate relationships between men and women, highlighting them against a background of action as in the newest, Burnt Sienna. To give his stories a realistic edge, he has been trained in wilderness survival, hostage negotiation, executive protection, antiterrorist driving, assuming identities, electronic surveillance, and weapons. A former professor of American literature at the University of Iowa, Morrell now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Thomas Ganty (illustrator). First Edition. First edition. #412 of 1000 in this special limited edition. SIGNED by David Morrell AND Thomas Ganty. This copy is FINE in a FINE ,Mylar protected DJ and a VG+ traycase. The book and DJ have no noticeable blemishes. The tray case has two dark pin dots and a pin dot dent on the rear.and a hint of toning to the spine. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 000444
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Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Thomas Canty (illustrator). First Edition. Donald M. Grant, Hampton Falls, NH, 1994, 385 pp. Large, deluxe hardcover limited first edition in matching felt-lined tray-case. DJ and interior color illustrations by Thomas Canty. This is #180 of only 1,000 copies SIGNED by the author and artist. This is Morrell's original, unaltered version of this renowned horror novel, not the very different, half-as-long version originally published in 1979. Contains publisher's original note about custom-made traycase and an illustrated page marker. In an isolated valley in the Rocky Mtns, something is leaving mutilated bodies of cattle. Soon, things get much, much worse. A heavy book (4 pounds) with thick pages, so will require extra postage for overseas shipment. A fine copy all around. Signed by Author and Illustrat. Seller Inventory # 000155
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Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Thomas Canty (illustrator). Like New. book. Seller Inventory # D8S0-3-M-1880418258-5
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