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A sharp first edition/first printing in About Fine condition in alike dust-jacket with minor edgewear.

In 82 Desire, Skip Langdon is back in the Big Apple, working as a private detective, when he's hired to find a missing girl. The girl, Addie, is the niece of Skip's old friend, the billionaire Victor Sayer. Victor is one of the richest men in the world and he's never been one to shy away from a challenge.

As Skip starts to investigate Addie's disappearance, he quickly realizes that there's more to it than meets the eye. The more he digs, the more he realizes that Victor may be responsible for more than just Addie's disappearance. With the help of his old friend, the detective Rafe Castillo, Skip begins to put together a mosaic of clues that leads him to Victor's inner circle of powerful and corrupt men.

In the end, Skip has to choose between his loyalty to his friends and his duty to justice. And in the end, it's his loyalty to his friends that saves him; A Skip Langdon Novel; 8vo; 309 pages.