{"product_id":"2940014031097","title":"LEASE TO DOOMSDAY","description":"_The twins were a rare team\u003cbr\u003e indeed. They wanted to build\u003cbr\u003e a printing plant on a garbage\u003cbr\u003e dump. When Muldoon asked them\u003cbr\u003e why, their answer was entirely\u003cbr\u003e logical:_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   _\"Because we live here.\"_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was the lack of sense in the ad that made him go back to it again. He\u003cbr\u003ewas having his breakfast coffee in the cafeteria next to the midtown\u003cbr\u003ehotel where he lived. The classified section of the New York _Times_ was\u003cbr\u003espread before him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    WANTED: Live wire Real Estate broker--No selling--30-40. Room 657\u003cbr\u003e    Silvers Building--9-12 Monday morning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe ad made no sense for several reasons. One: you just don't go around\u003cbr\u003eadvertising for brokers with four pages of them in the classified phone\u003cbr\u003ebook. Two: how can one be a live wire broker, without having to sell?\u003cbr\u003eKevin Muldoon shook his head. Just no damn sense. The Silvers\u003cbr\u003eBuilding--H'm! Not too far off. He looked at his strap watch. Fifteen\u003cbr\u003eminutes of nine. He could walk it in that time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Don't be a fool,\" he said to himself. \"It's obviously a come-on of some\u003cbr\u003ekind.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe got up, paid the check and went out. It wasn't till he was on Third\u003cbr\u003eAve. that he was conscious he had started to go crosstown when his\u003cbr\u003eoffice was in the opposite direction. He smiled wryly. Might as well\u003cbr\u003einvestigate, he thought. Can't do any harm, and it won't take long.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere were four others waiting in the small anteroom. The outer door\u003cbr\u003ebore no legend other than the room number, and the inner door was blank\u003cbr\u003ealtogether. Muldoon made a quick appraisal of those waiting. Three\u003cbr\u003ewere obviously past middle-age, the fourth about Muldoon's age. The\u003cbr\u003einner door opened and Muldoon looked up. A tall man came out first, a\u003cbr\u003eman in his early sixties, perhaps. Immediately behind him came a\u003cbr\u003eslightly shorter man, but very heavy and with a head that was bald as a\u003cbr\u003ebilliard ball. The older man marched straight to the door, opened it and\u003cbr\u003ewent out without a second look back. The fat man looked around, his face\u003cbr\u003ebeaming in a wide smile, eyes almost closed behind fleshy lids.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration: The weird machine clicked and clattered while the twins\u003cbr\u003edreamed of tomorrow.]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"And now, who's next?\" he asked.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079930986736,"sku":"2940014031097","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014031097_p0.jpg?v=1763599325","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014031097","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}