The Stars at Noon (signed copy)

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986.

First Edition. Publisher's black cloth with the unclipped dust-jacket, spine slightly faded. Signed by the author at the head of the titlepage. A near fine copy. Author's third book. The novel follows an unnamed American woman, supposedly a journalist, living in Managua, Nicaragua in 1984, during the Sandinista regime. Having travelled to Nicaragua as an observer for an anti-war group, she is shocked by the rampant corruption of both the Sandinistas and "the stupid CIA". Down on her luck, she hustles as a prostitute at the Inter-Continental Hotel in Managua, hoping to leave Nicaragua one day, where she meets an English businessman who she falls in love with. When the Englishman has a falling out with the Nicaraguans, the two flee together towards the southern border with Costa Rica. An American who is most likely a CIA agent tracks them and pressures her to sell out the Englishman.