{"product_id":"2940169436402","title":"Codex: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eAbout to depart on his first vacation in years, Edward Wozny, a hotshot young investment banker, is sent to help one of his firm's most important and mysterious clients. His task is to search their library stacks for a precious medieval codex, a treasure kept sealed away for many years and for many reasons. Enlisting the help of passionate medievalist Margaret Napier, Edward is determined to solve the mystery of the codex-to understand its significance to his wealthy clients, and to decipher the seeming parallels between the legend of the codex and an obsessive role-playing computer game that has absorbed him in the dark hours of the night.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe chilling resolution brings together the medieval and the modern aspects of the plot in a twist worthy of earning comparisons to novels by William Gibson and Dan Brown, not to mention those by A. S. Byatt and Umberto Eco. Lev Grossman's \u003ci\u003eCodex\u003c\/i\u003e is a thriller of the highest order.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123051905264,"sku":"2940169436402","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169436402_p0.jpg?v=1763682645","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169436402","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}