DELMAN, David - The last gambit AND Bye-bye baby [2 novels]
The last gambit (first published 1990): Dmitri Kaganovich is an internationally ranked chess player, a ladies' man and a rogue. He attends the Capa Open in Philadelphia along with Lieutenant Jacob Horowitz, entered in a lower section. As things progress, Kaganovich must turn to Jacob for help. Jacob's wife Helen also a private investigator, is in Chicago tracking down the missing daughter of a successful venture capitalist. Is there a possibility two such dissimilar characters could be connected? Bye-bye baby (first published 1992): 'Oh God, Bry, you honestly think that you're going to live forever.' So says Baby Robin Cantrell, the most famous female tennis player in the world to her divorced husband. Most people have mixed feelings about Baby, including Jacob and Helen Horowitz. At the Tri-Town Invitational, the mid-point of Baby's tour, voilence erupts. Helen and Jacob, in the middle of it all, find their lives intensified in a way that shakes them both.
Published: 1994
No. pages: 362
ISBN: 9780261663879
Condition: FAIR - softcover - 215g
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