{"product_id":"2940154439166","title":"A Tale of Two Times","description":"\u003cp\u003eAccording to the front-page photo in the (New York) Daily News, on Friday, December 3, 1954, my father was Murdered, Gangland Style. I was three years old.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe assassination was most likely ordered by a mob insurance broker in order to collect on a large life insurance policy that my father provided as collateral for a business loan. After my father’s death, my distraught mother began a downward spiral into substance abuse from which she never recovered. The insurance broker, later convicted of another killing while under witness protection, was never charged with my father’s murder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on those events, I’ve written a time-travel novel, \"A Tale of Two Times,\" about how a middle-aged son battles to save his younger parents’ previously doomed lives.\u003cbr\u003eIn present-day Florida, Billy Volante leans against a large oak tree in his backyard, only to keep falling---through the tree -- into 1961, exactly fifty-six years into the past, into the same Gulf Coast resort town where he now resides and where his parents took winter vacations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBilly and his free-spirited girlfriend, Carrie Anne, decide to pose as a married couple to warn his young father, Johnny Volante, of the looming 1964 murder. Seeking to build a friendship before revealing his identity, the older Billy takes his father on a fishing trip, only to stumble upon a vacationing mob attorney, Herman Goldman, who will order the future murder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Goldman meets Billy, things change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWill Johnny Volante believe Billy, a man more than twice his age, is his son?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf Billy saves his father's life, what becomes of his future and the future of the girl he loves?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWill Goldman complicate things, even more, by adding another target to Billy's lifesaving mission?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eObviously, there's only one way to find out.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Vocale","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070700077296,"sku":"2940154439166","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940154439166_p0.jpg?v=1764068219","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940154439166","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}