{"product_id":"2940169634372","title":"The Ploughmen: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eA young sheriff and a hardened killer form an uneasy and complicated bond in this mesmerizing first novel set on the plains of Montana.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSteeped in a lonesome Montana landscape as unyielding and raw as it is beautiful, Kim Zupan¿s \u003ci\u003eThe Ploughmen\u003c\/i\u003e is a new classic in the literature of the American West.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the center of this searing fever-dream of a novel are two men¿a killer awaiting trial and a troubled young deputy¿sitting across from each other in the dark, talking through the bars of a county jail cell: John Gload, so brutally adept at his craft that only now, at the age of seventy-seven, has he faced the prospect of long-term incarceration, and Valentine Millimaki, low man in the Copper County Sheriff¿s Department, who draws the overnight shift after Gload¿s arrest. With a disintegrating marriage further collapsing under the strain of his night duty, Millimaki finds himself seeking counsel from a man whose troubled past shares something essential with his own. Their uneasy friendship takes a startling turn with a brazen act of violence that yokes together the two haunted souls by the secrets they share¿and by the rugged country that keeps them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104577601776,"sku":"2940169634372","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169634372_p0.jpg?v=1769897828","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169634372","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}