PLEASE SEE PHOTOS

NO RIPPED OR MISSING PAGES

HARDCOVER WITH UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET

STATED FIRST

Illustrated by (dj design) Jill Mitchell (illustrator).

Novel set in the organized (and now thankfully illegal) dogfighting racket, "a rugged world of sportsmen, trainers, and dangerously greedy adventurers." The plot concerns a fellow who becomes "an apprentice to one of the fabled breeders of the Pit Bull," and finds himself being set up as a fall guy in a dognapping/fight-rigging scheme.

The author is depicted in the rear-jacket photo holding his own pit bull (I'm assuming) on a leash, and the front jacket design is a stylized adaptation of that photo.

Geller's first novel, "She Let Him Continue," was the basis for the 1968 film PRETTY POISON, and he subsequently did a bit of screenwriting, most notably for the film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five.".