New York: Ballantine, (2004). SIGNED first edition - The author's first suspense novel, the story of a former baseball hero, now bartender in Manhattan after an accident ended his promising career, who finds himself with the key to a lot of cash, and in trouble every way he turns. Wallace Stroby describes it as reading like "The Maltese Falcon on crack, Tarrantino meets Hitchcock." SIGNED on the title page. 258 pp.