{"product_id":"2940044587595","title":"The Hand of Osiris","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a continuation of the story begun in The Talisman of Elam, Jason Hunter and his friends are abducted from their school grounds, in full view of everyone, and transported to a frozen planet. The Réian councilor meets them in secret to tell Jason that the talisman of Thoth has been discovered, and that Oruq, the Thothian leader, is on his way to claim it. To avert a war that will destroy the Earth, Jason and Amelia must steal the talisman first. To do so, they are transported by an itinerant trader to the Utharani sector, an area of the galaxy normally off-limits—and deadly—to humans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere they meet the Collector, an eccentric Utharani who is obsessed with Hathorian artifacts and is therefore willing to tolerate the presence of a human. She guides Jason to the talisman, but he is too late. His failure to beat Oruq produces a cascade of events that places him, Amelia, and Kevin in ever greater danger. With nowhere else to go, they transport to Thoth itself, where the Elamen agent Shalan is attempting to rescue her partner. Jason and Amelia manage to steal the talisman right from under Oruq’s hooked nose, but at a terrible cost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInstead of preventing the war, however, the theft makes matters worse. The only course of action left is to find and steal the third and last talisman and thereby form the fabled Hand of Osiris. The quest to do this takes them through the center of the galaxy, a place they only narrowly escape, and finally back to the ghost planet Grogon. It is there that they face the greatest danger, and it is there that Jason must make a decision that will affect every humanoid race in the galaxy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jim Mastro","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47077831246064,"sku":"2940044587595","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940044587595_p0.jpg?v=1763665594","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940044587595","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}