{"product_id":"9780316327596","title":"The Smack: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"That rare thriller that will jack your pulse even as it breaks your heart.\"--Adam Sternbergh, author of\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e Shovel Ready\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eRowan Petty is a conman down on his luck. He's flat broke, living out of cheap hotels, and wondering how it all went wrong. His car quits on him in Reno, and he takes a job there on the bottom rung of a lousy phone scam. When he's not swindling lonely widows, he tries to turn nickels into dimes at the poker table. One snowy night, he crosses paths with a sweet-talking hooker who's tired of the streets, and sparks fly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen an old friend of his turns up spreading a rumor about two million dollars in army money smuggled out of Afghanistan and stashed in an apartment in Los Angeles, it seems like a chance at the score of a lifetime. So Petty and the hooker head south, and straight into trouble. A wounded vet, a washed-up actor, and Petty's estranged daughter are all players in the dangerous game they find themselves caught up in. For the winner: a fortune. For the loser: a bullet to the head.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePropulsive, suspenseful, and written with a searing lyricism, The Smack shows once again that \"Lange is a writer firing on all cylinders who belongs in the top tier of novelists working today\" (\u003ci\u003eOmaha World-Herald\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown and Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47076906729712,"sku":"9780316327596","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780316327596_p0.jpg?v=1763681013","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780316327596","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}