SHATTERED
by Dick Francis New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, (2000). First edition, first printing Fine in a fine illustrated dust jacket. SIGNED by the author! "When jockey Martin Stukely dies after falling in a steeplechase at
Cheltenham races, he accidentally embroils his friend Gerard Logan in a
perilous search for a stolen video tape. Logan, half artist, half
artisan, is a glass blower on the verge of widespread acclaim for the
originality and ingenuity of his work. Long accustomed to the frightful
dangers inherent in molten glass and in maintaining a glass-making
furnace at never less than eighteen hundred degrees Fahrenheit, Logan is
suddenly faced with a series of unexpected and terrifying new threats
to his business, his courage and his life. Believing the missing video
tape to hold some sort of key to a priceless treasure, and wrongly
convinced that Logan knows where to find it, a group of villains sets
out to force from him the information he doesn't have. Narrowly escaping
these attacks, Logan reckons that to survive he must himself find out
the truth. The journey is thorny, and the final race to the tape throws
more hurdles and more hazards in Logan's way than his dead jockey friend
could ever have imagined. Glass shatters. Logan doesn't...but it's a
close run thing."--Publisher's blurb. PLEASE VIEW FOR MORE GREAT SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS! |