{"product_id":"9780984212545","title":"Plender","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eGet Carter\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGBH\u003c\/i\u003e comes a tense and psychologically complex tale of revenge and blackmail that rightfully belongs among Ted Lewis’s greatest work.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo men share a common history. Growing up together in the small town of Barton-Upon-Humber in Lincolnshire, England, Peter Knott is everything that Brian Plender wishes he were. Knott is suave, good-looking, an exemplary student and popular. The friendship they maintain is as important to Plender as it is forgettable to Knott, and eventually leads to a lasting humiliation for Brian.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYears later Brian Plender is a dangerous man. A private investigator who specializes in extortion, blackmail, and intimidation, Plender is a manipulative psychopath capable of anything should it improve his status. Knott meanwhile is a family man adrift, beholden to his wife for money, which he makes photographing catalogs for her father’s large mail order company. His wandering eye and a taste for younger women, lingerie—something his wife doesn’t altogether go for—and access to a parade of girls looking to break into modeling has led Knott through a series of sordid affairs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen at a bar, which he uses to set up marks, Plender spots Knott with a girl too young to be his wife and he decides to follow the pair and see what happens. At first it's out of curiosity but soon it turns to a darker, more opportunisitic motivation. What follows is an edge-of-your-seat trip into a nightmare that manages to be both incredibly creepy and eerily profound.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Soho Press, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47076725555440,"sku":"9780984212545","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780984212545_p0.jpg?v=1763894962","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780984212545","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}