{"product_id":"9781429953498","title":"Wake Up Dead: A Cape Town Thriller","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn amphetamine-fueled thriller about a bombshell American widow on the run in Cape Town's violent badlands—from a writer being compared to George Pelecanos and Richard Price\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA split-second decision with no second chance: get it wrong and you wake up dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn a blowtorch-hot night in Cape Town, American ex-model Roxy Palmer and her gunrunner husband, Joe, are carjacked, leaving Joe lying in a pool of blood. As the carjackers make their getaway, Roxy makes a fateful choice that changes her life forever. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDisco and Godwynn, the ghetto gangbangers who sped away in Joe's convertible, will stop at nothing to track her down. Billy Afrika, a mixed-race ex-cop turned mercenary, won't let her out of his sight because Joe owed him a chunk of money. And remorselessly hunting them all is Piper, a love-crazed psychopath determined to renew his vows with his jailhouse \"wife,\" Disco.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs these desperate lives collide and old debts are settled in blood, Roxy is caught in a wave of escalating violence in the beautiful and brutal African seaport. With savage plotting and breakneck suspense that ends in a shattering cataclysm of violence, \u003ci\u003eWake Up Dead\u003c\/i\u003e confirms Roger Smith as one of the world's best new thriller writers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Holt, Henry \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47153768628464,"sku":"9781429953498","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429953498_p0.jpg?v=1769901998","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429953498","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}