{"product_id":"2940170805228","title":"The Lovers: A Thriller (Abridged)","description":"Charlie Parker is a lost soul. Deprived of his private investigator's license and under scrutiny by the police, Parker takes a job in a Portland bar. But he uses his enforced retirement to begin a different kind of investigation: an examination of his own past and an inquiry into the death of his father, who took his own life after apparently shooting dead two unarmed teenagers. It's a search that will eventually lead Parker to question all that he believed about his beloved parents, and about himself. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e But there are other forces at work: a troubled young woman who is running from an unseen threat, one that has already taken the life of her boyfriend; and a journalist-turned-writer named Mickey Wallace, who is conducting an investigation of his own. And haunting the shadows, as they have done throughout Parker's life, are two figures: a man and a woman who seem driven to bring an end to Charlie Parker's existence. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Haunting, lyrical, and impossible to put down, \u003ci\u003eThe Lovers\u003c\/i\u003e is John Connolly at his best.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47160916312304,"sku":"2940170805228","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170805228_p0.jpg?v=1763717979","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170805228","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}