{"product_id":"2940045941150","title":"The Wafer","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn The Wafer, untold numbers of doomed patients await the donation of a beating heart. When black-market organs enter the equation, things turn ugly.Surgeons, the priests of medicine, acquire donor organs to extend another life―but playing God can have its penalties. In ancient cultures, priests presented the still-living heart at a ceremony to appease the Gods. In modern society, the church symbolically presents the wafer and wine. “It’s still living, you know, so treat it like it’s living. It will be beating in another person’s chest in less than three hours,” said the surgeon only half an hour ago, after he had removed the still beating heart from the brain dead donor; quieted it with drugs, packed it in a bag of nurturing solution, and sunk it still quivering in a bed of sterile ice before handing it to him. “You are carrying two lives in your hands, the sacrificed life and the person dying for the want of a new heart. Both will be dead if you fail. Don’t lose this one and turn up missing, yourself, like your recent cohorts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hughes Henshaw Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47072334905584,"sku":"2940045941150","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940045941150_p0.jpg?v=1763686341","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940045941150","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}