Dancing Bear.

JAMES CRUMLEY

Publication: Random House, 1983, New York

First edition. Inscribed on the title page "To Bill & Karen, Thanks. Jim Crumley." This is the earliest state of the book, with numbers correctly beginning at ‘2’ and no statement of ‘First Edition’ which was added for the second printing. Fine bright copy in a fine fresh dust jacket.

Milo is hired by a nosey, rich woman to spy on two people -- a man and a woman who sit in their cars for about an hour or so every Thursday afternoon. the woman wants to know who the two people are and what they talk about. Seems pretty simple but .... soon the man Milo's tailing is killed in the exploding car that he's driving; Milo finds a live grenade wired to the clutch petal of his rental; in the Toyota Milo finds two submachine guns, ammo, grenades, and a kilo of marijuana and bag of coke. Suddenly, Milo is on the run. An action-packed thriller!!