Simple Simon: A Thriller
Ryne Douglas Pearson. William Morrow & Company, $24 (256pp) ISBN 978-0-688-14296-4
FYI: An Avon paperback of Capitol Punishment will also be published in July.
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Reviewed on: 07/01/1996
Genre: Fiction
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