{"product_id":"2940152556919","title":"New America","description":"\u003cp\u003eAUTHOR'S NOTE - This is a novella, hence the $0.99 price; if you're looking for a full-length novel, please check out any books in the \"World's Scariest Places\" series.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA BRAVE NEW WORLD - By the mid twenty-first century civilization is experiencing a hangover from the boom times and rampant consumerism of previous decades. Food prices and unemployment are at all-time highs, while emergency food and water and energy rationing are the norm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo reduce humanity’s ecological footprint, and stave off a worldwide catastrophe, governments around the globe begin to miniaturize segments of their populations and relocate them to mini-utopias free of poverty, hunger, and for the most part, crime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Bob and Maureen Smith lose their life savings in a bad investment, and their only daughter a month later, they take the plunge and miniaturize. Yet when Maureen backs out at the last moment, Bob finds himself on his own in the strange new world—and discovers it's not all it's cracked up to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Jeremy Bates and his books:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Bates' approach to the story is surprisingly restrained, cultivating impressive frights in the unnerving environment...an understated horror story that will remind readers what chattering teeth sound like.\"\u003cbr\u003e-- Kirkus Reviews on Suicide Forest\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Bates takes an intriguing premise to shocking lengths, revealing the outcome only in an epilogue. A graphically violent story with building suspense and a moral about where weaving such a web may lead.\"\u003cbr\u003e-- Booklist on White Lies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The Catacombs is easy to consume whole, like a shocking, but delicious, pint of ice cream, as Bates never shies away from the bad or the ugly. If you are looking for something to give you chills before you go to bed or make you think twice about turning off your light, then The Catacombs is the book for you.\"\u003cbr\u003e-- San Francisco Book Review on The Catacombs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[A] short, sharp shocker...Bates (The Taste of Fear) writes persuasively from [the protagonist's] adolescent point of view, making the horror of his youthful reminiscences that much more intense.\"\u003cbr\u003e-- Publishers Weekly on Black Canyon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The story culminates in a tense situation and a surprising yet satisfying ending...well written and an exciting thriller.\"\u003cbr\u003e-- Suspense Magazine on White Lies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Big on suspense...think of The Blair Witch Project with the exception being that this takes place in...a real haunted setting.\"\u003cbr\u003e-- HorrorAddicts on Suicide Forest\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Here's an enjoyable book to lose yourself in. Jeremy Bates doesn't miss a trick, teasing and misleading, ratcheting up the tension as the heroine...loses traction on a slippery slope of deceptions.\"\u003cbr\u003e-- Glenn Kleier, New York Times bestselling author on White Lies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A horror story like none other...makes for a read that will delight horror fans who want their novels steeped in psychological suspense as well as action.\"\u003cbr\u003e-- Midwest Book Review on The Catacombs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat people are saying about the books in the WORLD'S SCARIEST PLACES series (Suicide Forest, The Catacombs, Helltown, Island of the Dolls):\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Definitely gave me chills reading this late at night which hasn't happened since I was a 13 year old teenager reading Stephen King's, It, for the first time.\" - verothehero\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Move over King and Koontz there's a new talent in town.\" - judy pfanner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I had to stop reading at certain points because he was freaking me out. That only happens to me with one other writer--Stephen King.\" - Lyn Lutrzykowski\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I think of early Clive Barker, without the guts.\" - H. Kelly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Suicide Forest is up the with Joe Hills Heart Shaped Box.\" - Lola Cain\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Scariest book I've ever read\" - Jamie Dobbs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"If you like Greg Olsen or Jeffrey Deaver, Jeremy Bates is a great new talent.\" - Lnh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I found it rivaling some of Stephen King's and Dean Koontz's early works---high praise indeed.\" - Diana D\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"If you enjoy Richard Layman, you'll love reading Jeremy Bates\" - Anna W.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This author is in the same league as King, Simmons, and Craven\" - linda22724\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jeremy Bates","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47103066177776,"sku":"2940152556919","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940152556919_p0.jpg?v=1764022749","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940152556919","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}