{"product_id":"9780060541729","title":"The World Before (Wess'Har Series #3)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThree strikingly different alien races greeted the military mission from Earth when it reached the planet called Bezer'ej.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNow one of the sentient species has been exterminated—and two others are poised on the brink of war.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fragile \u003ci\u003ebezeri\u003c\/i\u003e are no more, due to the ignorant, desperate actions of human interlopers. The powerful \u003ci\u003ewess'har\u003c\/i\u003e protectors have failed in their sworn obligation to the destroyed native population—and the outrage must be redressed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut those who are coming to judge from the World Before — the home planet, now distant and alien to the \u003ci\u003ewess'har\u003c\/i\u003e, whose ancestors left there generations ago — will not restrict their justice to the individual humans responsible for the slaughter. Earth itself must answer for the genocide. And its ultimate fate may depend on a dead woman: former police officer Shan Frankland, who became something far greater than human before destroying herself in the vast airless depths of space.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47056503701744,"sku":"9780060541729","price":7.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780060541729_p0.jpg?v=1763619457","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780060541729","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}