{"product_id":"9781429909211","title":"The Big Boom","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdgar Award--winning author Domenic Stansberry is known for his intensity---his dark thrillers, thick with suspense, in which the differences between good and evil are not so easy to decipher. \u003ci\u003eThe Big Boom \u003c\/i\u003eis just such a novel: set in San Francisco, at the peak of the high-tech frenzy, just before the technology markets and the California economy all go bust. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Big Boom \u003c\/i\u003efeatures the return of Dante Mancuso, the hero of Stansberry's \u003ci\u003eChasing the Dragon\u003c\/i\u003e, an obsessive private investigator working the streets of his San Francisco neighborhood. He is a dark-eyed, complex figure---melancholic, tender, with fierce, aquiline good looks---known to neighborhood familiars by his nickname: the Pelican. Dante's nickname---like the demons that haunt his personal life---comes from his family on account of his tenacity, and his large, Sicilian nose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow Dante has settled into a new apartment in North Beach, hoping to put those demons behind him and patch together a life with his longtime lover, Marilyn Visconte, but before long he is approached by an old North Beach family in hopes that he will find their missing daughter---a young woman, a former sweetheart, with whom Dante had been involved years before---and his newfound peace is shattered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDante's search for Angela Antonelli, though, has hardly begun when the corpse of a young woman is dredged from the bay. He soldiers on in his investigation, fearful that the missing woman and the corpse are one and the same.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis search for the missing woman---even after he has been called off the case---becomes an obsession that alienates his current lover, but Dante follows the ghostly trail anyway into the heart of the financial district and the underside of the dot-com revolution. It is a quest rendered in the staccato prose of the genre, a style that---in Stansberry's hands---takes on a dreamlike cast, hallucinatory at times, blurring the lines between reality and Dante's own dark nostalgia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Big Boom\u003c\/i\u003e is a tightrope of a novel, a taut story about familial duplicity, personal greed, and the desperate pull of love even across the divide of memory.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47141704630512,"sku":"9781429909211","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429909211_p0.jpg?v=1769901609","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429909211","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}