{"product_id":"9780765385307","title":"The Builders","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2016 Hugo Award Finalist for Best Novella\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA missing eye.\u003cbr\u003eA broken wing.\u003cbr\u003eA stolen country.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe last job didn't end well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYears go by, and scars fade, but memories only fester. For the animals of the Captain's company, survival has meant keeping a low profile, building a new life, and trying to forget the war they lost. But now the Captain's whiskers are twitching at the idea of evening the score.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003ci\u003eTHE BUILDERS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A living, breathing world of vivid, winsome characters hellbent on their blaze of glory and as unforgiving as a runaway train carrying all your friends over a cliff. I haven't cared about animals this much since Watership Down.\" — Delilah S. Dawson, author of \u003ci\u003eHit\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWicked as They Come\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Nobody does dark like Polansky. \u003ci\u003eThe Builders\u003c\/i\u003e is \u003ci\u003eRedwall\u003c\/i\u003e meets \u003ci\u003eUnforgiven\u003c\/i\u003e, combining the endearing wit of Disney's Robin Hood with all the grit and violence of a spaghetti western.\" — Myke Cole, author of the Shadow Ops series\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"If Sam Peckinpah and Brian Jacques had a strange peyote ritual and shared a collective dream, it might look something liek this. Brutish, nasty, short — much like life — Polansky's \u003ci\u003eThe Builders\u003c\/i\u003e is also funny, exciting, and extremely original. \u003ci\u003eThe Wild Bunch\u003c\/i\u003e meets \u003ci\u003eWatership Down\u003c\/i\u003e.\" — John Hornor Jacobs, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Incorruptibles\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martins Press-3PL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47016041578736,"sku":"9780765385307","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780765385307_p0.jpg?v=1763660817","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780765385307","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}