{"product_id":"2940014103862","title":"Vigorish","description":"_If it \"takes a thief to catch a thief\" ... what does it take to\u003cbr\u003e     catch a psi-gifted thief?_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat do you hate and fear the most? I know a girl who gags and throws up\u003cbr\u003eat the mere sight of a bird. Poor kid, when she was a barefoot moppet\u003cbr\u003eshe stepped on a fledgling robin in the grass. She hasn't gotten over\u003cbr\u003ethe squish of it yet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBirds don't trouble me. I can look at them all day. It takes snakes to\u003cbr\u003egive me the green shudders. I hate them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe was getting better at them, I decided. This was the fourth one since\u003cbr\u003ebreakfast and the roughest-looking of the lot. It was a diamondback\u003cbr\u003erattler, and lay coiled on the rug at my feet. I turned my swivel chair\u003cbr\u003eslowly back to my desk and riveted my eyes to the blotter. Snakes are\u003cbr\u003eghastly things. But there was no future in letting them shake me up.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI bent over in my swivel chair and swung my left arm like a flail just\u003cbr\u003ebelow this rattler's raised head. He struck at me, but late, and missed.\u003cbr\u003eThe swipe I took at him should have swept him over, but he got his coils\u003cbr\u003earound me. When I heaved back up straight before my desk, he was as\u003cbr\u003eneatly wrapped around my forearm as a Western Union splice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnough of his tail was free to make that buzz that means \"Look out!\"\u003cbr\u003eAbout a foot of his business end stood up off my arm. His forked tongue\u003cbr\u003eflicked out over his horny lip, pink and dainty.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145865281776,"sku":"2940014103862","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014103862_p0.jpg?v=1763600691","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014103862","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}