{"product_id":"2940170356799","title":"Pirata: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003e21-Jump Street\u003c\/i\u003e writer and series creator Patrick Hasburgh, a part thriller, part family novel about an ex-pat American living and surfing in Mexico, the family he loves, and the murder he witnesses, in the vein of Don Winslow's \u003ci\u003eThe Dawn Patrol\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a former life, Nick Lutz, sold cars in the Golden State. He had a wife and a young son, and they struggled along until Nick was shot in the head when a potential customer hijacked the car he was demonstrating. The incident sets off a bad-luck domino fall, and he loses an eye, his job, his family, and, eventually, his self-respect.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith nothing left, Nick heads for Mexico, where he sheds his former self among an eclectic group of expats and locals, who fondly name him \"Pirata\" on account of his eye patch. There on the beaches of Sabanita, Nick and his buddy Winsor drink, surf, and-most of all-escape, buoyed away from their pasts on south swells and Tecate. Nothing epic. That is until Winsor's girlfriend, Meagan, ends their abusive relationship and flees with her two boys to the safety and solace of Nick's beachside casita. A monsoon season fling of convenience turns into a torrid love affair as new loyalties and dark secrets are shaped into something like a family. But when the local \u003ci\u003epolicía\u003c\/i\u003e struggle to identify a body that has washed up in the surf, Nick realizes his secretsamp;mdash;and sinsamp;mdash;have caught up with him. And there are dangerous new surprises that have yet to roll in with the tide. . . . \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA gifted storyteller, Hasburgh drops listeners into the middle of a gripping, heartwarming, viscerally compelling pause-resister. At once tender and deadly hysterical, \u003ci\u003ePirata\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel listeners won't soon forget.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47102393680112,"sku":"2940170356799","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170356799_p0.jpg?v=1763737582","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170356799","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}