{"product_id":"9780062210814","title":"The Demi-Monde: Book One in the Demi-Monde Saga","description":"\u003cp\u003e“You can’t help getting caught up in the smartly-paced story…which is served up with lashings of steampunk relish.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cem\u003eSFX \u003c\/em\u003e(UK)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Rees makes the book work: the world he’s created is a psychopathic nightmare.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the Demi-Monde, author Rod Rees has conjured up a terrifying virtual reality, a world dominated by history’s most ruthless and bloodthirsty psychopaths—from Holocaust architect Reinhard Heydrich to Torquemada, the Spanish Inquisition’s pitiless torturer, to Josef Stalin’s bloodthirsty right-hand man\/monster, the infamous Beria. \u003cem\u003eThe Demi-Monde: Winter\u003c\/em\u003e kicks off a brilliant, high concept series that blends science fiction and thriller, steampunk and dystopian vision. If Neil Gaiman, Neal Stephenson, James Rollins, and Clive Cussler participated in Suzanne Collins’s \u003cem\u003eThe Hunger Games\u003c\/em\u003e, the result might be something akin to the dark and ingenious madness of Rees’s \u003cem\u003eThe Demi-Monde: Winter\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47010231550192,"sku":"9780062210814","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780062210814_p0.jpg?v=1763627381","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780062210814","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}