TRIBAL SECRETS

Bantam, New York, 1992, Advance Reading Copy.  ISBN 0-553-07361-3.  Inscribed on title page “Regards, Eugene Izzi”.  Trade paperback, 376 pages.  Wraps show some edge and cover wear, small corner curls, crease on lower rear wrap, bit of toning; reading crease along front hinge; one laminate wrinkle on front.  Binding sound with a very slight lean; outer page block tanned.  Interior clean and unmarked; pages tanning; small ding on fore-edge resulted in a few pages with very tiny tears.  ‘Raised on Chicago’s mean streets by a father who has made a career out of killing for the mob, Babe Hill has fought long and hard to put his violent past behind him. … his performance in a Sunday night Movie of the Week has made Babe Hill a star. …  when you’ve got millions of adoring fans, all it takes is one to make your life hell.  Edna Rose doesn’t care if Babe has a wife and kids.  She knows that the sexy actor belongs to her – and she’ll do anything to win him…anything.  Yet when Edna makes her move, she’ll find she has unexpected competition.  Babe’s father has just ripped off his employers to the tune of one hundred grand, and now the mob means to make Babe pay for his father’s sins.  Suddenly everyone wants a piece of Babe, but it won’t go down the way any of them expect …’ (from rear wrap)