{"product_id":"9780307430984","title":"Flying Crows","description":"BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Jim Lehrer's \u003ci\u003eTension City.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With \u003cb\u003eFlying Crows\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e,\u003c\/i\u003e veteran newsman and bestselling author Jim Lehrer has written  his most powerful novel, a work that moves masterfully from past to present and back  again to solve the mystery that is American mayhem.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In 1997, police discover an  old homeless man in the Kansas City train station. “Birdie Carlucci” claims he has  lived there since 1933, hiding out in the storeroom of a Harvey House restaurant.  Kansas City cop Lieutenant Randy Benton decides to discover the truth behind Birdie’ s tale—and finds himself on a ride that leads ever backward into our country’s bloodstained  past.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Benton’s investigation reveals the story of young Birdie, incarcerated in  a brutal insane asylum where the preferred method of treatment is beating with a  baseball bat. In that hopeless environment, though, he’s befriended by another patient,  Josh Lancaster, once dismissed as a lost cause but snatched back from the brink by  a compassionate doctor. But what is the secret of Lancaster’s involvement in an infamous  Civil War encounter between Confederate bushwhackers and Union soldiers? And what  truly happened after Birdie escaped from the asylum on the famous Flying Crow train?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e As Benton returns to the present day, he wonders: How much, if any of it, really  took place? What were the true public and private traumas of these two troubled men  who can’t forget what they’ve seen or merely imagined?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Inspired by real events,  \u003cb\u003eFlying Crows \u003c\/b\u003eis a novel that moves as inexorably as a train in the night to a shattering  conclusion—one that reveals the many meanings of imprisonment and escape, and all  the eccentricities and tragedies of the American soul.","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47083380146416,"sku":"9780307430984","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780307430984_p0.jpg?v=1763672545","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780307430984","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}