{"product_id":"9780312607302","title":"Drink the Tea","description":"\u003cp\u003eWillis Gidney is a born liar and rip-off artist, an expert at the scam. Growing up without parents or a home, by age twelve he is a successful young man, running his own small empire, until he meets Shadrack Davies. That's \u003ci\u003eCaptain\u003c\/i\u003e Shadrack Davies, of the D.C. Police. Davies wants to reform Gidney and becomes his foster father. Though he tries not to, Gidney learns a small amount of ethics from Shad—-just enough to bother a kid from the streets for the rest of his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow Gidney is a PI, walking those same streets. So it's no surprise that when his closest friend, jazz saxophonist Steps Jackson, asks Gidney to find his missing daughter, Gidney is compelled to say yes—-even though she's been missing for twenty-five years. He finds a woman who may be the girl's mother—and within hours she turns up dead. The police accuse Gidney of the murder and throw him in jail.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaybe Gidney should quit while he's behind. But when his investigation puts him up against a ruthless multinational corporation, a two-faced congressman, and a young woman desperate to conceal her past, Gidney has no time left for second thoughts. In fact, he may have no time left at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas Kaufman is a winner of the PWA Best First Private Eye Novel Competition. His debut novel, \u003ci\u003eDrink the Tea\u003c\/i\u003e, which boasts an original PI and an engaging cast of characters, adds a fresh perspective to the genre.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47019771199728,"sku":"9780312607302","price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780312607302_p0.jpg?v=1763677314","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780312607302","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}