Guns Signed by Ed McBain First Edition Hamish Hamilton 1977. No inscriptions. A fine copy in like original dust jacket. SIGNED by Ed McBain directly to title page.

In the gritty underbelly of urban America, small-time hoodlum Colley Donato's thirteenth liquor store heist spirals into catastrophe when he impulsively guns down a pursuing cop, catapulting him from petty thief to public enemy. Over a taut 24-hour odyssey, Colley slinks through rain-slicked alleys and seedy motels, dodging relentless heat from a vengeful police force. Flashbacks unravel his twisted path to gun obsession—first as a bullied kid, then through brutal partnerships with a violent mentor and a sadistic lover who revels in carnage. Conning dubious allies for cash and cover, Colley's paranoia mounts amid profane rants and desperate improvisations. McBain's razor-sharp prose strips bare the soul of a man whose firepower fantasy devours him, hurtling toward a fatal reckoning in a backwater gun shop. No heroes here—just raw, profane descent into self-destruction.