{"product_id":"9780575118065","title":"Scudder's Game","description":"\u003cp\u003eHave a Happy Golden Straub Day!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The message floated in the sky for all to read; citizens chanted it to each other, motorists tooted it on their car horns as they drove the uncongested freeways. Earth had become a paradise, courtesy of Cordwainer Hardware International; population dwindling, war a thing of the past, free, untrammelled sex the right of all. But is paradise everything . . .?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In this vividly realised novel, S. G. Compton charts the growth of CHI and the bland, idyllic world they engineered. Too idyllic for some; for beneath the surface darker forces were at work. At their heart was Scudder Laznett; brilliant, irascible, uncompromising. Scudder had begun a little game of his own; what that game was, Pete Laznett only discovered by slow degrees. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e And what he discovered was horrifying.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orion Publishing Group, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47107686826224,"sku":"9780575118065","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780575118065_p0.jpg?v=1763720481","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780575118065","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}