{"product_id":"9780978618452","title":"Missing","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom Put-in-Bay to Detroit to Grosse Ile to Cedar Key to Wooster to Northeast Ohio\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAce Put-in-Bay-based investigative reporter EMERSON MOORE has the tables cruelly turned on him following the murder trial and conviction of Detroit mobster, JIMMY DIAMONDS. During a wildly daring prison van hijacking and go-fast boat escape on the Detroit River, Moore incurs a severe head injury during a gun battle (delete this). When the getaway boat is found abandoned on Lake Erie, Moore is missing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat’s not all that’s missing. When Diamonds learns that Moore’s memory is missing, he convinces Moore that he’s Manny Elias, one of organized crime’s top hitmen. Moore\/Elias is whisked to the backwaters of Cedar Key, Florida by Mafioso FAT FREDDY FABRIZIO to be \"retrained\" in the art of killing. Moore\/Elias later surfaces in Ohio where Diamonds uses him to take revenge on former criminal associates in Detroit, Columbus, Cleveland and Chagrin Falls.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompleting one deadly assignment after another, Moore\/Elias is unable to reveal his identity to a beautiful woman he befriends near his Wooster hideout. A confrontation with rival hitman SANTORO at a Lake Erie marina leads to the eventual death of one person who holds the key to Elias’ true identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe novel is fast-moving and action-packed. It shows emotional turmoil as Moore\/Elias struggles with the trauma of his memory loss and an inherent ethical dilemma with cold-blooded murder. It’s further complicated when two of Moore’s ex-SEAL buddies, MIKE \"MAD DOG\" ADAMS and SAM DUNCAN, find themselves in the cross hairs of Moore’s weapon and Moore\/Elias is ordered to kill them in what is another exciting showdown and satisfying finish to a complex series of twists and turns.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Packard Island Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47016819392752,"sku":"9780978618452","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780978618452_p0.jpg?v=1763880304","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780978618452","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}