Ballantine, New York, September 1986, 1st pr thus.  ISBN 0-345-32906-6.  MMPB, 214 pages.  Wraps show edge and cover wear, small corner creases, reading creases; binding sound with a slight roll.  Interior clean and unmarked with lightly tanning pages.  ‘When ten-year-old E. J. Donagan fails to return home from his paper route one Saturday morning, his mother, Jan, fears the worst.  She immediately contacts Bardy Coyne, her wealthy father’s attorney and E. J.’s surrogate father since her divorce from one-time Red Sox pitcher Eddie Donagan.  It soon becomes clear that E.J. was kidnapped.  Much to the dismay of the FBI, the kidnappers want Coyne personally to deliver the hefty $150,000 ransom.  Then Eddie, whose fall from baseball stardom has landed him with a job selling sneakers at a suburban shopping mall, joins his son among the ranks of the missing.  A murder soon follows.  And suddenly Coyne’s got a grand slam of a mystery to solve.’ (from rear wrap)