cover image Any Cold Jordan

Any Cold Jordan

David Bottoms. Washington Square Press, $6.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-671-65987-5

Billy Parker is a guitarist living near Tallahassee, Fla., whose marriage and music have gone sour and who is led into danger by a Vietnam vet. PW praised the ``precision, force and lyricism'' of Bottoms's writing and described this as ``a haunting first novel.'' (Dec . )