{"product_id":"2940169720730","title":"Mantis","description":"\u003cp\u003eThree young women have been brutally assaulted and murdered in the city of Philadelphia. Lieutenant William Fogarty, a time-toughened cop hardened by personal tragedy, is shocked by the brutality of the crimes. His only lead comes from medical examiner Josef Tanaka. Half Japanese and half American, Tanaka, a skilled practitioner of the martial arts, claims to recognize the method used in the attacks: a karate strike known as \u003ci\u003enukite\u003c\/i\u003e, or spear hand. Fogarty has nowhere else to turn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn unlikely combination, Fogarty and Tanaka, forced together by circumstance and neither completely trusting the other, conduct a desperate hunt, trawling the city streets of Philadelphia and into the dangerous underbelly of the killing arts. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePursuing the Mantis, a creature who uses the flesh of his victims in a sadistic, macabre ritual of self-purification, Fogarty and Tanaka endanger the lives of those closest to them as they inch perilously close to the precipice of their own worst fears and weaknesses.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47161503613168,"sku":"2940169720730","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169720730_p0.jpg?v=1769898776","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169720730","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}