Koko - SIGNED

Peter Straub

ISBN 10: 0525246606 / ISBN 13: 9780525246602

Published by Signet, New York, 1988

About this Item

This boois in "near fine" condition with one corner bumped.
It is inscribed and signed on the title page.
The spine has no creases.
It has never been read.
Please see the pictures!

Seller Inventory # ABE-1770211947713

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Koko - SIGNED
• Publisher: Signet, New York
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0525246606
• ISBN 13: 9780525246602
• Binding: Soft cover
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Dimensions: 4.3W x 7H x 1.5D inches 4.3 inches width by 7 inches height by 1.5 inches depth
• Weight: 11 ounces
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Horror
  • Thriller
  • Mystery

About this title

Synopsis

Fifteen years after Vietnam combat, four veterans of the same platoon return to Asia to save another member of their platoon--a man they suspect has become a serial killer

Reviews

In his most gripping, most hallucinogenic thriller to date, the author of Ghost Story and Shadowland takes us on a dizzying spin through those eerie psychic badlands where nightmare and insanity seem to fuse with reality. It's 15 years after the Vietnam War and a string of murders in Southeast Asia convinces four veterans of the same Vietnam platoonone now a doctor, another a writerthat the murderer, whose trademarks are mutilation and a playing card with "Koko" scrawled on it, was also a member of the platoon. They resolve to find him, for purposes of their own, before the police do. Led by the platoon's one-time lieutenant, who has a cold-blooded killing of villagers on his record, they follow Koko's trail to the sleazy bars and sinister dives of Singapore and Bangkok, and finally to New York where one of them becomes his latest victim. A probe into the killer's grim childhood yields his true identity, as well as his genesis as a psychopath, but in a thrilling climax, the now-you-see-me, now-you-don't Koko proves just how wily he is. The characters are realistic and complex, and the story continues to resonate in the mind long after the final page is turned. 250,000 first printing; major ad/promo; BOMC featured alternate.
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