The Ibis Tapestry

New York, New York, USA: Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated, 1998. CH4 - A hard cover first American edition withdrawn ex-library book in good- condition with a dust jacket in very good- condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in tan paper covered boards quarter bound in dark green paper with silver lettering and a graphic on the spine with very minor overall shelf wear plus there is the usual library stamp on the top outside paper edges plus the front endpaper has been removed as part of the library's withdrawal process plus the dust jacket endflaps are glued down to the inside surfaces of the boards. The dust jacket shows no visible signs of wear plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve plus there is the usual library label on the spine wrapping around onto the back plus the endflaps are glued down to the inside surfaces of the boards. A man is murdered in a remote Saharan town. The main character, the unhappy writer of political thrillers, the distraction of the investigation becomes an obsession. Then there is the mysterious delivery of a laptop computer and a cryptic e-mail message and he ends up caught up in the vagaries that made up the murdered man's life &anddeath. By the author of "Horseman," "This Day and Age," "The Powers That Be," "A Good-Looking Corpse," and "The Waiting Country." 210p.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.