The Big Killing
Publisher: Harpercollins
Published: 1997
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780006479864
First sentence: We were here again-if you call a hangover company or a slick of methylated sweat a friend-in this bar, this palmleaf-thatched shack set back from the sea in some fractious coconut palms, waiting for the barman to arrive.