Book Description A classic American private eyeB> To hear him tell it， Amos Walker is an unsuccessful man in an obsolete profession. Still， even P.I.s have a sense of honor， and Walker has always been a man who believes in paying back favors that people have done for him over the years. He owes his old friend Barry Stackpole a big one， for saving his life in a Cambodian shell crater a lifetime ago. Now Stackpole， lately a good， hard-scrounging reporter， has vanished. And finding him is the job Walker's been hired for-not once， but twice: first by Stackpole's newspaper， then by an attractive literary editor hot to track down an even hotter book the missing man's been writing. The investigatory trail becomes littered with a bewildering assortment of fresh dead bodies. Walker nearly joins the clutter when somebody rigs his steering and brakes. And a final revelation explosively narrows the distance between the tropical jungles of Asia and the concrete jungles of Detroit-and between one brand of war and another.... From the Inside Flap The Bookcassette® format is a special recording technique developed as a means of condensing the full， unabridged audio text of a book to record it on fewer tapes. In order to listen to these tapes， you will need a cassette player with balance control to adjust left/right speaker output. Special adaptors to allow these tapes to be played on any cassette player are available through the publisher or some US retail electronics stores. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.