Its the truth... Living in the wilds of westren MA I only happened to find "Paths Of the Dead" in softcover because I was on shopping expo with the MRS in a bigger city. Ive allways had a rough time finding the Vlad novels localy and an even tougher time finding MR Brusts other works...nothings ever in stock unless your Grisham I guess! Any other regions have this problem?.....On another happier note the sci-fi bookclub (http://www.sfbc.com) Has many of the Vlad novels in digest form (example dragon&issola). hope this qualifies as on topic as its my first post