Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of a young black man in a high-profile job: he has the CEO's patronage, a beautiful wife, a house in a fine old neighborhood - and then everything begins to fall apart. Described as 'among the first contemporary African American novels to go inside the offices on executive row.' 219 pp. ISBN: 0-945575-734.