{"product_id":"2940012916631","title":"The Killer Elite","description":"It began in the quiet smugness of an elegant club in St.James, and ended in a nightmare of brutality and deception.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMike Locken, a former specialist in security and transport, takes on a job to shepherd an exiled African politician in a risky transit across London, the first step in the triumphant return to his homeland.  But out there somewhere waits an elite team of international assassins contracted to take him down -- one of whom not so long ago put three bullets into Locken that should have left him a corpse, but didn't... one bad guy's big mistake.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo Mike Locken -- unofficial now, an expendable gun-for-hire, reenters the war zone driven by his own demons.  Ostensibly to foil a political assassination but willing to use the African as bait if it gets him a shot at the man who put him out of business forever, or so it seemed to everyone but Locken.  Following a path from stakeout to shootout, from deception at a London airport to betrayal in a remote Welsh village then back to London where it all began -- and a savage finish.  \"Rostand knows how to let action like this explode all over the place,\" says Bestsellers. \"Sensational... a writer with real flair,\" The New York Times Book Review. A Delacorte Suspense Novel of the Year.  Filmed by Sam Peckinpah\/United Artists.","brand":"Robert Syd Hopkins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47180018974960,"sku":"2940012916631","price":5.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012916631_p0.jpg?v=1763585475","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012916631","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}