{"product_id":"2940011150869","title":"Crash Dummies","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen a fiery romance at a Methodist picnic in Minneapolis goes up in smoke, a benumbed Marty Kayo drifts to Longboat Key, Florida where he stops a bar fight—abruptly. A grateful Marine Lt. Colonel West hires Marty to deliver $4 million to the Contras in Honduras. Convinced his “ship has come in,” Marty takes the job—and the cash.\u003cbr\u003eBut rogue FBI and CIA agents know West’s plans and dispatch a pair of Mafia thugs to kill Marty for a share of the loot. A tangled burlesque of shifting alliances, lust, confusion, betrayal and cross-purposes erupts, in which only the assassins know Marty’s identity!\u003cbr\u003eMeanwhile, back in Minneapolis, a physicist and his cat unlock a secret that Maya shaman have guarded for centuries. One name will conjure the past: Tzytzyan Ysalane! Illusions will evolve and unravel as characters and worlds collide in a climax of enraged deities, lost lovers and spellbound thugs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarty Kayo has a hunch about the universe and his destiny in it.\u003cbr\u003eHis hunch may be right. But his new job as elite courier has dropped him in a mine-field of betrayal in Honduras. Somebody’s painted a target on his back. Everybody wants something this courier’s got. Yet nobody can identify Marty…except the contract killers sent to murder him. Marty’s fate will be linked to a pair of hazy heroes whose spy craft resembles dual personality disorder, a crackpot physicist with a curiously missing cat, a lost codex with instructions for time travel, and a vengeful Mayan sorceress with some serious baggage.\u003cbr\u003eThough no one suspects...the past is about to catch up with everyone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdgy and entertaining, Crash Dummies defies categorization: its audacious plot and crystal prose parody formulas of spy thriller, romance and sci-fi fantasy, skewering social classes, the Cold War, alternate universes, Mayan esoteric knowledge and American hubris. Funny, provocative, sordid and steamy, Crash Dummies is a wild ride through a Twilight Zone of Americana, replete with jilted agents and jaded heroines, murky heroes and supercilious mobsters; a postmodern parable of a nation tilting at windmills; a garish tableau of clashing cultures and crashing civilizations, madness and time travel—crowned by a gloss on the Maya that is worthy of Orson Welles.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dennis Weiser","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47181308559600,"sku":"2940011150869","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940011150869_p0.jpg?v=1763547786","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940011150869","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}