NORTH OF MONTANA **REVIEW COPY**

Smith, April

ISBN 10: 0679431977 / ISBN 13: 9780679431978

Published by Alfred A Knopf Inc: A Borzoi Book, N.Y., 1994

About this Item

First Edition, so stated. . Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Review Copy. Los Angeles. A MACAVITY AWARD NOMINEE for Best First Novel. "In a stunningly assured debut, Smith has produced a crime thriller distinguished by an unflagging pace, authoritative use of detail and an appealing heroine. In vigorous, literate prose, Smith delivers characters of depth and dimension who inhabit the wildly diverse worlds of Southern California, each rendered with a cinematic eye. Her protagonist is Ana Grey, an ambitious, brash young FBI agent. With seven years in the L.A. field office and a recent "perfect bust" of a bank robber, Ana is ready to move up. A resentful superior stands in the way, however, and instead of getting transferred, Ana is assigned to a high-profile case involving a megawatt movie star of a certain age who has brought charges against a local doctor for addicting her to drugs. At the same time, Ana receives a phone call asking her to help the two young children of a recent street-shooting victim in Santa Monica--an immigrant from El Salvador who told friends that Ana was her cousin. Ana insists it's a hoax: abandoned as an infant by her father, a migrant worker from Mexico, she was raised by her mother, now deceased, and her beloved grandfather, a retired Santa Monica cop. Then Ana learns that the Salvadoran woman had worked for the physician charged in the drug case and finds herself tangled in events that lace together both personal and professional aspects of her life and trigger a troubling series of forgotten memories of her childhood. Moving through an array of settings--L.A.'s crowded Latino section, El Piojilla; the blue-collar Santa Monica neighborhood of her youth; the modern elegance of the "overbuilt upscale enclave" known as "north of Montana"--Ana grapples with more death, Hollywood politics, personal betrayal and her own seething desires. Wisely leaving some ends untied, Smith resolves the central themes of this seamless narrative in this smashing story." -- Publishers Weekly.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: NORTH OF MONTANA **REVIEW COPY**
• Publisher: Alfred A Knopf Inc: A Borzoi Book, N.Y.
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679431977
• ISBN 13: 9780679431978
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Book Type: Review Copy
• Seller catalogs:
  • Z 37
  • Mystery and Crime
  • Women Detectives
  • Wayne 24
  • Los Angeles

About this title

Synopsis

FBI agent Ana Grey probes a case involving a fading movie star, a famous doctor, and an allegedly il supply of and discovers that the boundaries between her professional and private lives are beginning to break down. A first novel. 125,000 first printing. Tour.

Review

A breathless read from the very first sentence. . . . This baby zips along with all the jolt of a double espresso.
"USA Today"
"Finely written. . . . Full of surprises. . . . North of Montana [is] a pleasure to read."
"The Wall Street Journal"
Absorbing. . . . Ana is an engaging heroine. . . . Smith writes in the forceful style of a true literary maverick.
"The New York Times Book Review"
"A page-turner."
"The Washington Post Book World""

-A breathless read from the very first sentence. . . . This baby zips along with all the jolt of a double espresso.-
--USA Today
-Finely written. . . . Full of surprises. . . . North of Montana [is] a pleasure to read.-
--The Wall Street Journal
-Absorbing. . . . Ana is an engaging heroine. . . . Smith writes in the forceful style of a true literary maverick.-
--The New York Times Book Review
-A page-turner.-
--The Washington Post Book World

"A breathless read from the very first sentence. . . . This baby zips along with all the jolt of a double espresso."
--USA Today

"Finely written. . . . Full of surprises. . . . North of Montana [is] a pleasure to read."
--The Wall Street Journal

"Absorbing. . . . Ana is an engaging heroine. . . . Smith writes in the forceful style of a true literary maverick."
--The New York Times Book Review

"A page-turner."
--The Washington Post Book World