{"product_id":"9781403377852","title":"The Adventures of Gideon Cairn","description":"It is 1938-39. Nazis invade Czechoslovakia. Martians invade  New Jersey. Soviet agents infiltrate the Manhattan media.  \u003cp\u003eThe Mutual Broadcasting System is struggling to save a failing  mystery show, \u003cb\u003eAdventures of Gideon Cairn.\u003c\/b\u003e A dashing, obscure Canadian  actor is hired to play Gideon Cairn, and a troubling element of the occult is  introduced in the scripts. Then, at the end of one Sunday-night broadcast, the  actor makes an unscripted announcement: on the next weekly broadcast Gideon  Cairn will provide information that will lead to the solution of a recent real-life  assassination in Rockefeller Plaza. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis story of the week between the two broadcasts is told from  three points of view -that of Michael, a young scriptwriter whose mind is infected  by the fantasies of pulp fiction - that of Milton, a middle-aged radio producer  with ties to the American Communist Party - and that of Marion, the senior writer  on the show, whose experience has led her to distrust dashing actors, political  ideologies, and the attractions of the kind of mystery fiction that she has  been writing. Enter the NYPD, FBI, Communists, Fellow Travelers, Nazis, The  Lone Ranger, Charlie McCarthy and Orson Welles. Read on... \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AuthorHouse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121643110640,"sku":"9781403377852","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781403377852_p0.jpg?v=1763716765","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781403377852","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}