{"product_id":"9781250018007","title":"Dead Peasants: A Thriller","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Just terrific… As real as a heart attack, and every bit as suspenseful.\"  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--John Lescroart, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eA Plague of Secrets, \u003c\/i\u003eon \u003ci\u003eThe Trial\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVeteran trial lawyer Larry D. Thompson has decades of courtroom experience in his home state of Texas on controversial and important trials. Now, in \u003ci\u003eDead Peasants,\u003c\/i\u003e Thompson has delivered a fast-moving and suspenseful legal thriller featuring a retired lawyer whose life gets turned upside down when a stranger asks for help. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJack Bryant, exhausted after a high-profile career as a lawyer, takes an early retirement in Fort Worth, Texas, where he plans to kick back, relax, and watch his son play football at TCU. But then an elderly widow shows up with a check for life insurance benefits and that is suspiciously made payable to her dead husband's employer, Jack can't turn down her pleas for help and files a civil suit to collect the benefits rightfully due the widow.  A chain of events that can't be stopped thrusts Jack into a vortex of killings, and he and his new love interest find themselves targets of a murderer.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGripping, engaging, and written with the authority that only a seasoned lawyer could possess, \u003ci\u003eDead Peasants \u003c\/i\u003eis a legal thriller that will stun and surprise you.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47143108935920,"sku":"9781250018007","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781250018007_p0.jpg?v=1763760534","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781250018007","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}