{"product_id":"2940014593212","title":"Nightlife","description":"From the primeval rain forest comes an uncontrolled substance never intended for consumption by the civilized mind…\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo the warrior-shamans of the Venezuelan forest people, the drug is a sacred substance: part pain, part pleasure, all power. Skullflush is pure psychic whiplash … an exhilarating gateway to an advanced consciousness beyond time and species.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeep in the Amazon, the primitive tribe has kept its secret safe from civilization. Until a rising drug lord ends up with a stolen six-kilo stash, and begins to peddle his prize in the nightclubs of Florida.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTampa’s thrill-seekers are eager to sample the pale green powder. But generations of urbanized decadence have left them jaded, shallow, and weak … too weak to handle the drug’s mystic high. The ancient rain forest chemistry warps bone, muscle, and sinew in their city-soft bodies, setting free the ferocious power of man’s basic nature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the rebound from a life in ruins, Justin Gray is the sole witness who can connect the fearsome power of skullflush with the carnage left in its wake. A marked man, with a new love and an unlikely ally from the heart of the rain forest, he's forced to learn the ways of the urban jungle, where everyone is both hunter and hunted.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e**********\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Hodge has come up with a scary winner. Unlike many of today's horror genre, Nightlife is believable … keeps you moving in a straightforward line until you get to the catastrophic end.\" — The Santa Cruz Sentinel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Color, sprawl, melodramatic action, and a feel not altogether unlike the prime of Miami Vice … it's right in there like a Charles Willeford portrait of South Florida at its grotesque best. Lots of heat.\" — Ed Bryant, in Locus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Switching back and forth between the mundane, the desperate, and the surreal, Nightlife displays a fascinating range: varieties of darkness.\" — Farren Miller, in Locus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Fascinating, frightening, and fierce, without for a moment failing to be richly human.\" — Robert B. Parker, author of the Spenser series","brand":"Crossroad Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47074060075248,"sku":"2940014593212","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014593212_p0.jpg?v=1763949762","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014593212","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}