{"product_id":"9780983192008","title":"anoxic zone","description":"This is the tale of two men, who through no fault of their own become service personnel for Megacorp, a multi-national corporation that operates under its own laws. The service personnel, a dark cadre, are brought back to life to maintain the infrastructure of a narcissistic, self-involved culture at the end of the industrial age. These reuseables are chosen for their skills. \u003cbr\u003eJake, a commercial diver and Johnny, a scientist, have been friends for over a hundred years. Human curiosity and inhuman nature conspire to have our friends discover just what they are; the whys and hows of how they came to be; a kind of ‘workingman’s dead’.\u003cbr\u003eIn the course of this discovery, they release they evil that spawned their kind, which had been imprisoned and used by Megacorp in a most despicable manner. Darkly charismatic, the evil befriends Jake and Johnny, who are now fugitives from Megacorp, as well, for unleashing their dividend maker. In time, the two realize that the charisma belies a ruthless, pathological psychopath that has been alive for over a thousand years. Their adventure takes them from Hawaii to Romania and the Black Sea, as Jake and John struggle to accept what they have become while trying to keep the evil from the hands of Megacorp and return it to the darkness of its birth.\u003cbr\u003eMyth and reality coalesce as the two struggle to deal with what they have become, along with the legacy that came with it. From deep in the Pacific Ocean to the Transylvanian Alps, the darkest phantom of our subconscious surfaces to mete out his own brand of persecution to those betrayed him.\u003cbr\u003eThrough a series of blood drenched battles, they return the evil menace from whence it came and earn a chance to become human again. \u003cbr\u003eA tidy little tale told with a nice bunch of gore and blood.","brand":"Black Water Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47076595826928,"sku":"9780983192008","price":3.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780983192008_p0.jpg?v=1763886448","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780983192008","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}