New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1980.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page. Novel set in a fictional province of Ethopia - from the dustjacket; "a novel that probes the very outer limits of conscience even as it tells a superbly gripping tale. Set in a bleak landscape where none of the signposts of civilization as we know it exist, it exposes the dark side of human nature---the side that, freed of all restraints, acts without pity, without conscience, without remorse." First novel by this journalist, Vietnam veteran and author of the highly acclaimed memoir about his experiences in Vietnam, "A Rumor of War." 486 pp. ISBN: 0-030421365.