{"product_id":"2940012833334","title":"Slippin Into Darkness","description":"Slippin' Into Darkness\u003cbr\u003eby Norman Partridge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe clock strikes midnight. It's April 8, 1994, and twenty-four hours of\u003cbr\u003eterror begin in a town on the California coast:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e12:03 A.M.: In a quiet cemetery, a man throws beer bottles at his lost\u003cbr\u003elove's tombstone. Graveyard baseball is the name of the game. The pitcher\u003cbr\u003ehasn't thrown a baseball or a bottle since he graduated high school in 1976,\u003cbr\u003ebut his concentration is perfect, his control unmatched... until someone\u003cbr\u003edisturbs the game, and the pitcher explodes in a violent fury.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:12 A.M.: A secretive photographer climbs the stairs of his basement\u003cbr\u003estudio. Shadows drift across the cool green felt of a pool table in his\u003cbr\u003eliving room. A young woman waits for him in the darkness. She is naked, her\u003cbr\u003eskin ghost-white, and her cold laughter stirs memories of a terrible night\u003cbr\u003ein 1976.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:38 A.M.: A wealthy thirty-five-year-old woman leaves her young lover's\u003cbr\u003eapartment, thinking of the husband she plans to divorce. Outside she meets a\u003cbr\u003eman from her past... a man from 1976 with a camera in his hands and a\u003cbr\u003etwisted blackmail scheme in his heart.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3:31 A.M.: A battered pick-up truck bashes through the gates of an abandoned\u003cbr\u003edrive-in theater. Five members of the class of '76 project an old home movie\u003cbr\u003ethat hides bitter secrets from the past... secrets that will forever change\u003cbr\u003ethe future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo begins Slippin' Into Darkness, a wild ride of terror combining the\u003cbr\u003erelentless suspense of Thomas Harris, the moody atmosphere of Twin Peaks,\u003cbr\u003eand the sad longing of a Bruce Springsteen ballad. But ultimately this book\u003cbr\u003eis Norman Partridge, writing with the gloves off, taking horror and suspense\u003cbr\u003ein a direction all his own.","brand":"Cemetery Dance Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069612638448,"sku":"2940012833334","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012833334_p0.jpg?v=1763572941","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012833334","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}