{"product_id":"2940044218406","title":"Cold Pulp Trio","description":"\u003cp\u003eThree hard-boiled stories that hark back to the days of Black Mask and Astounding Science Fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first tale is a novella that introduces private dick Jay Dafoe. He’s in a dirty business, and cold hard cash has always made up for twinges his conscience might occasionally feel, or so he thought until he’s hired to find a missing daughter. How does the amoral Dafoe handle the horror he unwittingly becomes entwined with?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe second story finds Dafoe doing what he thought was routine work for a lawyer. What he doesn’t know is that he is the final pawn in a tragedy that was thirty years in the making. Some sins, Dafoe finds out, can’t be forgiven.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe third story is a study of a thug with a badge. Ben Andropov is a cop. The bosses are management, and the beat is the moon. Management wants order and doesn’t care how it’s kept. Andropov is a low-level enforcer of the status quo, having used his natural brutality to escape the drudgery and poverty of the everyday citizen. Seventeen years he’s been a cop, and it’s starting to take its toll. Solving a simple murder winds up inflicting more damage to what’s left of his crippled soul and there’s no way out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCold Pulp Trio is hard-boiled noir. American as hollow point bullets.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"E.R. White, Jr.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47109285216496,"sku":"2940044218406","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940044218406_p0.jpg?v=1763660792","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940044218406","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}