{"product_id":"2940151334969","title":"Sprint to the Sphinx","description":"In Abu Dhabi, a Stanford graduate named Charles Pobre conducted illegal business practices and made a lot of money. After converting his earnings from dollars to twenty-five pure gems, Charles sought a way to protect his investments without relying on banks. With the help of his brother Max \"Senior\" Pobre, the two collaborated on a project called Code Gem, which allowed Charles Pobre to hide his gems in the computer world and it allowed him to set up his own defense system to protect his money. However, a disagreement between the brothers resulted in Charles Pobre's murder and the Code Gem project never being taken seriously by the world's leading scientists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBen Harris and Lindsay Caldwell are two teenagers that lead two different lives. Ben is a depressed teenager with no friends and is constantly verbally abused by his math teacher. He is a broken individual with a desperate need of companionship. Lindsay is a teen actress who yearns for change in her life that is full of cameras and adoring fans. Despite being revered by many people, Lindsay feels an emptiness in her life that her hobby cannot fill. Both of their lives change when they are selected by Senior Pobre and his friend to work for them in a computer program called Code Gem. This program allows Ben and Lindsay to enter the computer world from the real world. Their purpose for being here is simple. They are sent in to breach the twenty-five levels of Code Gem and execute the biggest gem heist the world has ever seen for Senior Pobre. But Code Gem has restrictions and the stakes are high. For each level, they are transported to a computer-generated version of a famous international location. From there, they have to rely on their instincts and little information that they have to locate the gem in a hundred minutes. If they fail to retrieve the gem in that time span, they die.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor their first level, they travel to Cairo, Egypt where they must figure out where the yellow gem is. As they search for this valuable gem, Ben and Lindsay begin to piece together a bigger conspiracy surrounding Code Gem and why they were brought here. By battling through the defense mechanisms that the Code Gem creator had set up to stop anyone from recovering the gems, Ben and Lindsay hope to get home safely and uncover the mystery surrounding Code Gem and its creator.","brand":"William Wetzel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47112928657648,"sku":"2940151334969","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940151334969_p0.jpg?v=1764008795","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940151334969","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}