First of State (CJ Floyd Mystery Series)

Greer, Robert

ISBN 10: 1556439156 / ISBN 13: 9781556439155

Published by North Atlantic Books, 2010

About this Item

First printing with full number line 1-10. Dust jacket has gold sticker on front that says "Autographed Copy". Inscribed by author on title page: "To Manny" and then signed by author. Otherwise inside is clean, tight, and unmarked.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1694839249366

Bibliographic Details

• Title: First of State (CJ Floyd Mystery Series)
• Publisher: North Atlantic Books
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1556439156
• ISBN 13: 9781556439155
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • First Edition
  • Signed
  • Mystery and Detective Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

Robert Greer’s latest novel—a prequel to his CJ Floyd mystery series—takes readers back in time to a very young CJ Floyd. It’s 1972, and the 22-year-old decorated war vet has recently returned to Denver from Vietnam with post-traumatic stress disorder. Navigating depression, he finds a friend in World War II vet and amputee Wiley Ames, who shares his passion for rare and valuable western memorabilia.

When Ames and a mysterious Chinese man are found murdered, CJ’s already fragile world threatens to collapse. His attempts to find his friend’s killer are thwarted at every turn, and finally he joins his Uncle Ike’s business as bail bondsman and bounty hunter. Five years later one of Ames’s treasured antique license plates turns up at a Denver flea market, and CJ is once again off and running. The trail to Wiley Ames’s murderer leads CJ down a dark path strewn with backstabbing antique dealers, conniving friends and relatives of Ames’s, and a shadowy musician. Equally a white-knuckle-ride murder mystery and a tale of a traumatized young man coming to terms with his past, First of State features the kind of fresh characters, street-smart dialogue, and ingenious plot twists that have made this series a critical and commercial success.

About the Author

Robert Greer is a professor of pathology, medicine, surgery, and dentistry at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Denver, where he specializes in head and neck pathology and cancer research. He is the author of eight previous CJ Floyd mysteries.