AMONG THIEVES

The dustjacket is a bit scuffed but all pages intact and legible. Good reading copy. Clean. No store stamps. --- --- Three men, and their three worlds, are brought together outside, and then behind, the stone walls of an American penitentiary on the edge of the desert. . .--- HERE'S THE FIRST FEW SENTENCES --- --- The living room was practically dark, with all the blinds down, but the way the sun was blazing away out there the room was like a furnace anyway, even with the cooler going. You could hear the cooler dripping away on the roof. Mel was stretched out on the couch watching the TV, with the kid standing alongside playing with Mel's buckle, the one he bought that time in the army, in a pawnshop in Columbus, Georgia, kind of gold with the field artillery on it. --- The kid started whining again.