{"product_id":"2940045109604","title":"Missing Zero","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo wrote George Orwell, somewhat grimly, nearly 65 years ago.\u003cbr\u003eNow imagine Orwell's infamous boot gracing the foot of Margot the Pansexual Commando, a beret-and-black-lace-wearing \"elite forces\" killer, and you will have entered the surreal and darkly comic world of MISSING ZERO.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in the unspeakably-clean city of Queme, the novel traces one man's quest for truth in our post-Orwellian age.\u003cbr\u003eSexually frank, intellectually subversive and laugh-out-loud funny, MISSING ZERO explores along the way the modern battlefield in the war between the sexes, while also parodying the larger catastrophe that is 21st-century life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe novel's kilt-wearing protagonist, Lorem Ipsum, is the missing zero of the title. And his is the face of an eternally downtrodden humanity, albeit as seen in a fun-house mirror.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn outsider and iconoclast, he is both the ultimate Everyman and \"nowhere man\". But could he also have a larger role to play than that again...say, that of helping to usher in the Apocalypse?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRead the novel they tried to have suppressed and find out. The future fate of all humanity might just depend on it...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I've never been quite sure what the fruit was forbidden to do, anyways...Thou shalt not go brown and mushy!\" - Lorem Ipsum\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lorem Ipsum","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47072073744624,"sku":"2940045109604","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940045109604_p0.jpg?v=1763969654","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940045109604","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}