Franklin Library: Signed NEW: Richard Condon: The Venerable Bead: Mafia: Albania
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Franklin library leather edition of Richard Condon's "The Venerable Bead, " Frontispiece by Cary Henri, a First edition, Personally Signed by RICHARD CONDON, one of the SIGNED FIRST EDITION SOCIETY series, published in 1992. Collector's Notes is included. Bound in burgundy leather, the book has decorative paper end leaves, satin book maker, gold gilding on three edges---in FINE---opened from SHRINK WRAPPED-- condition. Richard Thomas C...ondon, who lived from 1915 --1996, was a prolific and popular American political novelist. Though his works were satire, they were generally transformed into thrillers or semi-thrillers in other mediums, such as cinema. All 26 books were written in distinctive Condon style, which combined fast-pace, outrage, and frequent humor while focusing almost obsessively at monetary greed and political corruption. Condon himself once said: "Every book I've ever written has been about abuse of power. I feel very strongly about that. I'd like people to know how deeply their politicians wrong them." "The Venerable Bead" is a novel of LOVE, MONEY, POWER, and CORRUPTION. Our heroine, LEILA ALUJA, lead a full life. Daughter of an Iraqi-American U.S. Congressman who is involved in the MAFIA, Leila---with a little help from her friends in government and other equally shady high places---reinvents herself throughout her ever-changing career. She infiltrated Hollywood and became a mega-star movie actress. She later becomes a rock star and throughout her four marriages, she carries a torch for Albanian spymaster Josef Shqitonja, the "one who got away." The Albanian Fox, a former-sheep-farmer-turned-talent agent, gave Leila the 8th-century talisman to which she ascribes her charmed life. Cruel fate, however, keeps her separated from Shqitonja for nine years, while he searches the hills of Albania for a secret life-strengthening yogurt. I offer COMBINED shipping.
