{"product_id":"2940013694149","title":"Raiders Of The Red Death","description":"Nero fiddled while Rome burned. And nearly two thousand years later,\u003cbr\u003ein the City of Washington, D. C., distinguished guests at the\u003cbr\u003ebrilliant reception given by Mrs. Glenna Hawkins, dances to soft music\u003cbr\u003eand chatted idly of trivial things. And even while they laughed and\u003cbr\u003echatted, newspapers were being hawked in the streets; newspapers\u003cbr\u003ecarrying strange, black, disturbing headlines:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAZTEC REVOLUTION OVERTURNS MEXICAN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGOVERNMENT! SELF-STYLED DESCENDENT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOF MONTEZUMA MAKES SELF EMPEROR!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe voices crying extras did not penetrate to gay guests in the home\u003cbr\u003eof Mrs. Hawkins. Indeed, few except two of the guests concerned\u003cbr\u003ethemselves much with what was happening in little Mexico. The two who\u003cbr\u003ewere interested were none other than the American Secretaries of War\u003cbr\u003eand of State, whose limousines were conspicuous among those parked\u003cbr\u003eoutside Mrs. Hawkins' home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut those two gentlemen were not in evidence in the huge reception\u003cbr\u003eroom, and the other guests naturally assumed that they were closeted\u003cbr\u003esomewhere, discussing weighty matters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo the gay reception went on. . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIN New York City, a furtive man slunk out of the Times Square subway\u003cbr\u003estation, lingered a moment at the corner of Forty-second Street and\u003cbr\u003eTimes Square, glancing behind him frequently as if he were fearful of\u003cbr\u003ebeing followed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe was a thin man; his hands were small, almost effeminate. His face\u003cbr\u003ewas long, his features sharp, pinched with some sort of inward terror.\u003cbr\u003eHe belonged, obviously, to one of the Latin races.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis eyes strayed upward and across Forty--second Street, to the Times\u003cbr\u003eBuilding. There, high above the heads of the passing crowds, was the\u003cbr\u003eingenious news strip consisting of an arrangement of electric light\u003cbr\u003ebulbs, by which the latest happenings all over the world were flashed\u003cbr\u003ebefore the eyes of passing New Yorkers. The electric--light bulbs\u003cbr\u003ecarried the illuminated words clear around the building, and the\u003cbr\u003eeffect was that of a continuous sentence which could be read by anyone\u003cbr\u003ewalking on any side of the tall Times Building.","brand":"WDS Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069162340592,"sku":"2940013694149","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013694149_p0.jpg?v=1763584609","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013694149","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}