{"product_id":"2940044675926","title":"Friends Fall Out: An Epic Verse Novel (Saga No. 1)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat if fallen angels got a second chance?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn The Saga of Terminal City they do, freed from prison to walk the earth, doing good -- if they can.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFriends Fall Out (No. 1) finds ex-angel Robert Hunger on the trail of a ruthless rock band with plans to enslave the city. Who is their mysterious funder, and why do they desire a shy, but special, young woman?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e27 chapters, 2200 lines of poetry, all written in modern epic verse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSynopsis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe rebels of Heaven, thrown down to earth,\u003cbr\u003eas Poor Shepherds styled are, t' accommodate\u003cbr\u003ethe small, and slyly accost he who rules.\u003cbr\u003eTo support, from their rent, quarried places,\u003cbr\u003ethe computer prodigy Harry Shields,\u003cbr\u003erude hacker hijacked on prison release\u003cbr\u003eby diabolical priest, Rev'rend Haunts,\u003cbr\u003ehis special flesh to some repurpose put.\u003cbr\u003eHaggard odyssey of recovery\u003cbr\u003eopposed is by Krill Linkmaster, failed scribe\u003cbr\u003eof entrail-soaked science fiction, and his\u003cbr\u003ediscovery, the band, Pagan Onslaught,\u003cbr\u003etheir plan to persecute bloody tyr'nny\u003cbr\u003eon Terminal City. Complicated\u003cbr\u003eare these ends by actors hard and hearty:\u003cbr\u003ethe nordic queen Anga, resurrected,\u003cbr\u003eNithroc, corpse-like Lord of Evolution,\u003cbr\u003eU.F.O. Gods arrived, and most of all,\u003cbr\u003eshe who touches all, Summer Anderson,\u003cbr\u003eyoung harbinger of renewal in one.\u003cbr\u003eThe hidden hand of Lucifer we see,\u003cbr\u003ein signs, against whom Robert Hunger leads\u003cbr\u003ethe ex-angels to soundings undeduced.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBio\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis mind corrupted by childhood exposure to horror movie matinees, but equally enthralled by the atmosphere of old churches, Simon Pole writes cosmic poetry from the location of Vancouver, British Columbia. A graduate of Harvard University, Simon has continued his studies of what is hidden in the dark. Writing is also in his blood, being the great-great-grandson of early Canadian poet Susie Drury.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon Pole","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47074890252528,"sku":"2940044675926","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940044675926_p0.jpg?v=1763965623","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940044675926","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}