This novel is fully thought-out, with no superfluous
material, told in a
spare and dark tone. I highly recommend it. My copy is a
Hyperion
paperback from 1996, probably still in print.
Check out also his _Laguna Heat_ , _Little Saigon_, and
_Pacific Beat_,
all of them very fine novels. I still have _Summer of Fear_
in my
to-be-read pile. Perhaps when I read that I'll write a little
"career
retrospective" of Parker, an excellent author who has not
received
enough recognition. There's a special intensity and a
deliberateness to
his writing that I think would appeal to raravians (to those
who haven't
yet discovered him, of course).
Regards,
Mario Taboada
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