{"product_id":"9780983098706","title":"Cobalt City Blues","description":"The wrong place at the wrong time, a moment of weakness, an ironic twist of fate -- these are all things by which jazz pianist Simon Floyd measures his life. Now dead over seventy years and acting the part of super-hero Mister Grey, Simon wants nothing more than a return to some semblance of his old life. Even if it risks the safety of his friends and fellow heroes in the Protectorate.\u003cp\u003eEnter Augustus Dei -- shadowy power broker with near-limitless power. Thought to be nothing more than a dark whispered fairy-tale told by occultists and lunatics, he has come to Cobalt City with a singular purpose -- to help Simon with his unique problem. But is the reluctant hero willing to pay the cost required to get back what was taken from him by the barrel of a gun seven decades ago? And who can predict what chain of events might have been set up by the mischievous madman with millennia to plan?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBook Two of the Protectorate series, Cobalt City Blues is an epic novel of alternate realities, loss, redemption, jazz, super-heroes, and what it means to be human.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Timid Pirate Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47010028978416,"sku":"9780983098706","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780983098706_p0.jpg?v=1763885563","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780983098706","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}