{"product_id":"2940012894649","title":"Callahan's Con","description":"Jake Stonebender's bar in Key West gets a visit from mafioso Tony Donuts, who is looking for \"protection money\".  Jake and the barflies have other challenges as well, as when Jake's wife is suddenly lost in a space-time continuum... Publishers Weekly says, \"Blend a madcap plot involving the legendary Fountain of Youth with a zany cast of barflies, garnish with a thin SF twist, and you've got the ingredients for the latest frothy concoction in Hugo-winner Robinson's (Callahan's Key) multivolume tall tale.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The wordplay flies fast and funny as always in a Callahan's romp, and the characters, regular and new, are pretty darn amusing. \"\u003cbr\u003e- Booklist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"If one were given the task of creating Spider Robinson from scratch, the best way to do it would be to snatch James Joyce from history, force-feed him Marx Brothers films and good jazz for the better part of a decade, then turn him loose on a world badly in need of a look at itself.\"\u003cbr\u003e- The Vancouver Sun\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Nobody’s perfect, but Spider comes pretty damned close.”\u003cbr\u003e- Ben Bova\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Robinson's creative imagination is admirable.\"\u003cbr\u003e- Publishers Weekly","brand":"Spectrum Literary Agency, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069623582960,"sku":"2940012894649","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012894649_p0.jpg?v=1763574174","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012894649","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}