The Room of White Fire

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2017. CD3 - A first edition (complete numberline) hardcover book SIGNED by T. Jefferson Parker on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has some wrinkling on the edges and corners, light tanning and shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners, small tear on the top spine edges, some wrinkling on the spine edges, a initials written on the top right corner of the front free endpaper, tanning and light shelf wear. A young soldier on the run from a mental institution. A P.I. hired to track that soldier down. A race against the clock to bring the soldier home before he reveals the secret that haunts him. 9.5"x6.5", 341 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Roland Ford - once a cop, then a Marine, now a private investigator - is good at finding people. But when he's asked to locate Air Force veteran Clay Hickman, he realizes he's been drawn into something deep and dark. He knows war, having served as a Marine in first Fallujah; he also knows personal pain, as only two years have passed since his wife, Justine, died. What he doesn't know is why a shroud of secrecy hangs over the disappearance of Clay Hickman - and why he's getting a different story from everyone involved. To begin with, there's Sequoia, the teenage woman who helped Clay escape; she's smart enough to fend off Ford's questions but impetuous enough to be on the run with an armed man. Then there's Paige Hulet, Clay's doctor, who clearly cares deeply for his welfare but is impossible to read, even as she inspires in Ford the first desire he has felt since his wife's death. And there's Briggs Spencer, the proprietor of the mental institution who is as enigmatic as he is brash, and ambitious to the point of being ruthless. What could Clay possibly know to make this search so desperate? What began as just a job becomes a life-or-death obsession for Ford, pitting him against immensely powerful and treacherous people and forcing him to contend with chilling questions about truth, justice, and the American way.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.