
cover art by John A. Coughlin

Merry Christmas from U.N.C.L.E., Robert Vaughn

2000 Ballantine hardcover, first printing
debut novel by Phillips, surely a contemporary noir classic
Christmas Eve heist, Wichita, 1979 – what could go wrong?

1990 St. Martins hardcover, 1st print

1990 St. Martin’s mass market reissue
An ex-cop, burned out in a dead-end job, is enticed by an alluring co-worker into a plan to rob the chain of stores for which they work on Christmas Eve. Great dark comic noir.

1947 United Artists lobby card, 11×14″

Die Hard, 1988