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First US edition with a full 1 to 10 nubmer sequence indicating a first printing. Stated first printing August 2004. Price still on dustjacket. Minor bumps to head and tail of book spine. “Melanie Starks and her seventeen-year-old son, Charlie, have been running one con job or another for as long as she can remember, the necessary survival moves of a single mother. But Melanie is getting sick of that life, and she’s more than a little worried that Charlie is enjoying it too much. Then her brother reappears in her life, just out of prison on a technicality after serving five years of a life sentence for murder, and then everything goes terribly wrong…”