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Box Nine

Jack O'Connell, Author Warner Books $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-446-40100-5

O'Connell shows talent in his prize-winning debut, which teams detective Lenore Thomas with a Chinese linguist to track down a drug ring in a city very much like Worcester, Mass. (Feb.)
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Reviewed on: 02/01/1993

Release date: 02/01/1993

Genre: Fiction

Paperback - 320 pages - 9781901982275

Other - 312 pages - 9781453232491

Paperback - 346 pages - 9781453236772

Portable Document Format (PDF) - 312 pages - 9781480416093

Hardcover - 346 pages - 9781480479746

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