{"product_id":"2940012897657","title":"Pay or Pray: The Odd Threesomes","description":"THE MURDER OF A COLLEGE PROFESSOR evolves into the most complicated case of Lieutenant Chase Mansfield’s career.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY accepts an invitation from an old friend to address a select group of students and faculty.  The pleasant October evening ends with one man dead and the secretary missing.  The FBI and Lieutenant Chase Mansfield agree to pursue two separate investigations.  Mansfield pursues the murderer, and Special Agent Travis Cotton leads the search for the secretary.  The publication of the professor’s latest book complicates the situation with two chapters charging that Iran has a nuclear bomb and intends to use it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTENSIONS MOUNT and involves an angry president.  Iranians plot, the CIA and the FBI clash, and the United States Government acts against policy, ignoring its own mandate against negotiating with terrorists.  Mansfield meanwhile struggles with his investigation that has a perplexing number of tangled relations including an attractive Lady in Black, an ex-fiancée of the professor, and a beautiful but hippy Iranian physicist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY reappears forcing the FBI and Chase to realign their two investigations in a way that pleases neither of them.  Suddenly, Chase finds himself at the center of a national crisis that has an explosive ending.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert L Skidmore is the author of twenty-two novels.","brand":"Robert Skidmore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079006929136,"sku":"2940012897657","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012897657_p0.jpg?v=1763574022","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012897657","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}