No Man's Land: A Romance

356 pp. 16 pages of publisher ads follow text. illustrated by Thomas Fogarty. Garrett Coast navigates wrongful conviction and betrayal in this suspense thriller. Louis Joseph Vance possesses the happy gift denied to most of us, of finding the picturesque, the adventurous and the romantic among everyday scenes and everyday people. A gentleman gets off of a New York subway train at the wrong station. Not in itself an unusual thing to do; but from that simple act Mr. Vance shows how an unprincipled scoundrel is able to saddle the accusation of murder upon an innocent man; and how a devoted lover loses for years every trace of the woman whom he worships. In the rapid narrative of a double crime, and the unexpected dangers which beset the hero in his long search for the woman whom he finally marries, the author has equaled his best work.