{"product_id":"9780399171642","title":"Fifty Mice: A Novel","description":"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWhat if a man is placed in the Federal Witness Protection Program against his will? \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAnd doesn’t even know what he supposedly knows that merits a new name, a new identity, a new life?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Jay Johnson is an Average Joe, a thirty-something guy with a job in telephone sales, a regular pick-up basketball game, and a devoted girlfriend he seems ready to marry. But one weekday afternoon, he’s abducted on a Los Angeles Metro train, tranquilized, interrogated, and his paper trail obliterated. What did he see, what terrible crime—or criminal—is he keeping secret? It must be something awfully big. The trouble is, Jay has \u003ci\u003eno clue. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eFurious and helpless, and convinced that the government has made a colossal mistake, Jay is involuntarily relocated to a community on Catalina Island—which turns out to be inhabited mainly by other protected witnesses. Isolated in a world of strangers, Jay begins to realize that only way out is through the twisted maze of lies and unreliable memories swirling through his own mind. If he can locate—or invent—a repressed memory that might satisfy the Feds, maybe he can make it back to the mainland and his wonderful, even if monotonous, life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in a noir contemporary L.A. and environs, \u003ci\u003eFifty Mice\u003c\/i\u003e is a Hitchcockian thriller as surreal and mysterious as a Kafka nightmare. Chilling, paranoiac, and thoroughly original, it will have readers grasping to distinguish what is real and what only seems that way.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47021315358960,"sku":"9780399171642","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780399171642_p0.jpg?v=1763698746","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780399171642","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}